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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:19:05 +0000 (UTC) in alt.folklore.computers,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Lasse Langwadt Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) wrote:
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>>>>>Confirmed??? You mean that someone didn't know this???
>
>>>> <GRIN> A wedding is the first and last time the gal will have
>>>> a starring role. After the "I do"s, she gets hit with reality
>>>> when she has to wash the Prince's underwear.
>
>>>hopefully they have lived together before the wedding and she would
>>>already know, anything else would be stupid ...
>
>The statistics are more than clear that the divorce rate is *higher* for
>those who shack up before marriage. I'm skeptical about the causation,
>though--it seems more plausible to me that,as a group, those that are
>less likely to divorce are also less likely to live together before
>marriage.
Maybe not for long enough -- apparently hormones and lust alone can
keep a couple together for about four years -- after that, reality
starts to set in. Five years together before deciding on marriage
seems a reasonable time period that I'm going to be recommending to my
kids.
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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca)
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