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article.' Full of brash confidence, I set about my thoughts. That's when the trouble
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It is easy enough to push out the old, slightly outrageous ideas about marriage?especially to a group
?f women. Some things are said to provoke a reacti?n, other ideas?often partially formed?can be laughed off or put forward not entirely seriously. Committing these ideas to print, creating a structured case against marriage is something else. At one time or another every man I know has said he did not want to get married. I have believed most ?f them and said the same myself. Reconciling this 'ater to buying wedding presents for many of them has been paradoxically easy. Once a friend decides to get married I accept it fatalistically and with a
yague acknowledgment that he is giving up way ?f life for another?somehow more complete?form. If the vast majority of us adamantly protest resistance to marriage in the face of the undeniable evidence that an equally vast majority of us will get Carried, the immediate question is why. Why the Pretence? Is it pretence?perhaps just vain hope?or ls it a firm resolution doomed to be broken by exone
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Ejections to marriage. I was just getting into my stride, sweeping generalisations and all, when some?ne said: 'All right, if you feel so strongly about it, an
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f 3 ,w
JOHN A
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PAYNE LOOKS AT THE YOUNG MAN'S MARRIAGE IDEAS
article.' Full of brash confidence, I set about my thoughts. That's when the trouble
collecting
Parted.
It is easy enough to push out the old, slightly outrageous ideas about marriage?especially to a group
?f women. Some things are said to provoke a reacti?n, other ideas?often partially formed?can be laughed off or put forward not entirely seriously. Committing these ideas to print, creating a structured case against marriage is something else. At one time or another every man I know has said he did not want to get married. I have believed most ?f them and said the same myself. Reconciling this 'ater to buying wedding presents for many of them has been paradoxically easy. Once a friend decides to get married I accept it fatalistically and with a
yague acknowledgment that he is giving up way ?f life for another?somehow more complete?form. If the vast majority of us adamantly protest resistance to marriage in the face of the undeniable evidence that an equally vast majority of us will get Carried, the immediate question is why. Why the Pretence? Is it pretence?perhaps just vain hope?or ls it a firm resolution doomed to be broken by exone
perience?
^ams
o CO
^?W$iring yout^
Ejections to marriage. I was just getting into my stride, sweeping generalisations and all, when some?ne said: 'All right, if you feel so strongly about it, an
o
So
couple of months ago in the office I was talking my colleagues?98 per cent female?about my
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