-161 Your mate has a name other than "my husband/wife". Also, he's not "your" anything. S/he is just some random wholly autonomous confidence [wo]man who talked you into kiss-signing a contract that doesn't expire until you do, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ha. I love the way you look at things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You used the phrase "your mate." Just thought I'd point it out. How are we supposed to describe relationships between people without doing that? Even if we said the unnecessarily long "the husband of me," it'd still be showing possession.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is "your enemy" yours? Does the language that we use to denote relationships also signify ownership? Words can mean different things, and context is all. And in the case of marriage, your spouse is indeed yours, and you are theirs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Right!?? I thought that was the point of marriage lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/No_understand.jpg

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We also say 'my brother', 'my mother', 'my teacher'. Get over it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can't wait to be married now!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Someones a little bitter.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*tpc;dr too politically correct; didn't read

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is a phrase incorporated into a lot of weddings that clears up the "ownership problem" you seem to have: "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." Marriage is a mutual "owning" built on love. And as for a contract expiring only when a person dies, well, all I can say is that some people--a lot of people--want to spend the rest of their life with the person they married. It's why they married them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago