i don't believe in marriage - by Lilian Caylee

For those of you who know me, you know that I’ve historically been a naysayer of marriage—of the institution, but also of the concept of a lifetime commitment. It seemed foolish to me, not to mention, obnoxious, to profess your love so publicly, so explicitly, and with so much grandiose conviction, so much sentimental melodrama. How can anyone be so sure of anything? How can anyone believe that something as inherently mysterious and elusive as love can become something rigid, unchanging, unequivocal? There was a time when I suspected that everyone was punking me with these vows. And don’t even get me started on the whole “forever” pantomime. How can anything last forever? What makes love the exception? (so why oh, why oh, why oh, why oh, why oh). In my estimation, marriage was conventional artifice that was once convenient and economical. Now, “marriage is a wretched institution”— Beautiful romances are transmuted into dull marriages, and eventually the relationship becomes constrictin

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