Talking About Not Talking

[geektown]

I'm sick of talking about how I don't want to get married. I'm really tired of making fun of the entire institution. I like a good argument, I can't deny that, but it's gotten to the point of being ridiculous. Now if only all the parents and youth workers and teachers and whoever else watched me grow up would stop asking me, "When are you gonna

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[quadrathong]

Geez Dave...when are you getting married?

[nur_jahan]

so, you like a good argument: why don't you want to get married? I need a list of good reasons.

I know you mentioned a few things in the past, about how you don't think you could live with someone...have someone touch your things, or something to that nature...is that it, then?

(you don't have to answer if you don't want to...I'm going thru a sort of transformation myself...I thought I had to get married, so I didn't want to for the longest time (for more reasons than just rebellion), and now I really want to get married...so, you don't have to answer, I just like talking about it for good conversation, and i'm bored)

[geektown]

I think rebellion played a part in it long ago, but what really started me out on this no marriage path was realizing when I was younger that a lot of people I knew who were married had to give up a lot of dreams to do so. When I realized that, I decided I would not get married any earlier than thirty

[nur_jahan]

I think I understand what you mean

[geektown]

I have friends I'm close enough to, we can read each others minds or know what the other is going to say. Although I will say I can't conceive of wanting to be with someone so much that I can't stand being apart. That just doesn't register with me. Maybe it's just that I'm weird. Maybe I'm wrong and haven't met the right person. All I know is that if I got away from my theoretical wife for a weekend, I would be uncomfortable with how awesomely delighted I was

[readergal1004]

The same thing always used to happen to me...of course I AM married now (Happily so) but now everyone wants to know whan I am going to have a baby. So, ity never stops. People think we are all the same and that we should be just like them. It's kinda annoying :)

[geektown]

That's what I tell people. It seems like everyone who is married happily thinks everyone else should want to be just like them. It's like when people love Italian food; it's just inconceivable that someone out there doesn't enjoy Italian. "How can you not want to eat Italian?! It's delicious! There must be something wrong with you."

[joeleo]

It could be worse. People could ask you "When are you going to become a cult leader that brings about a mass suicide of your followers?"

[grease_1978]

Ah yes, the Waco jokes. Gotta love them.

[geektown]

It's one way to put your remote village/town/city on the map, I suppose. It may be ghoulish to say so, but at least people know where y'all are living.

[pink_ophelia]

When are you going to become a cult leader that brings about a mass suicide of your followers?

[geektown]

Why? You want in?