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Originally Posted by closetgeek
By the way, mate for life is meant to express the whole marriage package, love, fidelity, and children.
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My opinion is that that package is too heavy. Some people are lucky to get it, but many people will never manage to get all those things together. I think it's silly and unfair of our current culture to plant in everyone's minds the expectation that they, too, will one day achieve love, fidelity, and children (and you forgot sex; that's very important too!) Also, not everyone cares so much about fidelity.
I think we would be less unhappy if we had more realistic expectations, and were more honest -- towards ourselves, especially -- about what we
really want from a relationship. As it is, we get this idiotic, one-size-fits-all, Hollywood romantic ideal drilled into our minds to the point that we start believing it, and expecting it.