Posted on 08/19/2007 5:52:59 AM PDT by decimon
The situation posed was the man being jealous of his female partner.
If they two were suspicious of each other, I'd agree with 'they'. I also, without saying it, said that the woman should stay home and not be out and about.
I'm a traditionalist regarding marriage and generally don't bother myself with asking myself a question I already have answered.
Well said.
As you wrote, “Marriage unites two as one,” and if it takes two, then “way back there” it was “they” who didn’t unite, not just “she”.
She could not have united in marriage without him anymore than he could have united without her. The fact that one may have been willing to unite and the other was not willing does not change that. That the situation you posed (and that I did not catch) was the man being jealous of his female partner does not change that. I say “you posed” because the article talks about partners, mates and friends unless I missed something.
I am in two minds about this topic. On the one hand I can understand about jealousies being generated because of opposite-sex friendships, but on the other hand I believe there CAN be a line that is bloody well never crossed. I Myself recently lost a good friend because her husband could not accept our closeness. No, nothing ever happened, nor ever would. I always called her My 'baby sister' because we were so close, but with that reference you can see why it would always remain in the 'friendship' stage. Just could not see her as anything more... Surely I can not be the only one with such friends, can I?
Affairs have much more to do with opportunity than with morality, religious background, and other aspects that people normally cite.
More opportunity just means more of a chance that things go to far. Happens all the time.
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