> Couples who navigate growth together often develop stronger, more resilient partnerships.
Thinking of someone I used to know who sarcastically referred to her many relationship blowups as "another fucking 'opportunity for growth'".
I see a lot of people talking past each other in this thread. There's several layers at work:
- "marriage is good"
- "people should make an effort to keep their relationship together"
- "people should make an effort to keep their relationship together, even at the cost of their own happiness, regardless of whether their partner is also doing the work"
- "marriage should be socially encouraged"
- "marriage should be socially enforced with censure of the unmarried"
- "marriage and its permanency should be legally enforced, regardless of harm including rape and domestic violence" (the pre-1950ish position)
You can see poster A making one of these statements and another poster B replying as if they'd said another one down the slippery slope.