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Deborah, in her late 50s, has never married, but "she has been in a monogamous coupled relationship with Jim for more than 10 years." Angie "has been in a relationship for twenty years with a married man." Dorothy was married at 22 for five years and again at 35, for 10. During the 13 years since her second divorce, "she had averaged about one affair a year."
In other words, one has a man who makes no committment, one is dating another woman's husband, and one can only mange short-term serial relationships. Is this the kind of behavior we want to exhort? Lacking committment, respect, or loyalty?
You know what this leads to? The rise of the Conservative Christian movement. Just the same way marrying gays illegaly in San Fran got Bush elected.
* Note: Such anectodal popular works are worthless from a scientific standpoint. In California we could find two dozen movie stars cohabitating with cheetas and extrapolate a new national movement from it. Salon ought to have higher standards to backup its femi-nazi agenda.
