Perhaps I should say “gender of people in a committed relationship.” Sex in a relationship is a good thing, really.
Sorry everyone for jumping to conclusions. I have been posting at a bizarre rate for the past 13 hours, no sleep and plenty of stomach flu in between posts. Thanks to the dope for keeping me at least amused and informed in between bouts of definitely TMI illness.
And uh, yeah about getting a real membership. Im working on it, esp since I only have 5 days left.
Don’t be silly. You must know the first time they had intercourse was after they got married. There must have been some sort of problem in the bedroom. What a shame.
Oh well. At least they can still wear their abstinence-till-marriage rings.
Wise words. In his review of Pride and Prejudice, my namesake refers to the questions raised by the construct/notion love, and especially of ‘being in love’. His analysis includes this appraisal, which seem pretty much on the money for me, both in what it is claiming and in what it isn’t claiming:
“Of course all depends on who the people are. When Dorothea marries the Rev. Casaubon in Eliot’s Middlemarch, it is a tragedy. She marries out of consideration and respect, which is all wrong; she should have married for money, always remembering that where money is, love often follows, since there is so much time for it.”
I’m a little late to this thread, but I’ve got that beat: one of my co-workers got married 13 weeks ago, and he told me that 5 weeks into it they realized they’d made a mistake. So now he’s going through his second divorce. 