Here we go again. Every few decades, some enlightened geniuses come up with the idea of temporary or contract marriages. This time, Mark Shrayber writing for Jezebel.com subsite I Thee Dread has come up with a piece entitled Is It Time to Replace ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ with the Possibility of a Temporary Commitment’. Pardon me, but I have seen this movie before and it goes nowhere and does nothing for anyone involved. And, furthermore, if you are getting any kind of relationship advice from a site entitled I Thee Dread, hie thee to a shrink.

Shrayber quotes a Vicki Larson post:

Vicki Larson, writing for Aeon, points out that storybook commitment is better in theory than in practice. Why should we be celebrating couples who’ve been together for 50-75 years, she asks, when the truth is that many of these people are likely unhappy and living in “loveless and sexless” relationships? Why do we put forever marriage on such a pedestal?

Really, how does she know what is going on in these marriages. Let’s celebrate that they didn’t give up on each other, or run off with a younger version, or many of the other hideous things some people do to each other.