Should Marriage Licenses Have A Two Year With An Expiration Date

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A lifetime is not enough, for me

The Death due us part, part is hard ( unpleasant ). If only you could change that part.

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The new proposal, from lawmaker Lizbeth Rosas, would involve a reform to the civil code to say: "the length of marriage will be decided by the term agreed by those signing the contract ... and it can't be less than two years."
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a good pair of shoes will last longer that two years

[Little Flower]

I love you so much I will put up with you for two years. No more. then I leave you for somebody better.

[MithLuin]

To be fair, 2 years is the minimum here...I suppose the assumption is that no one wanting to get 'married' would settle for something shorter than that...

Oh boy.

The Scottish custom is considered a 'trial' marriage, and that is not unique to that culture, of course. Most cultures have some form of engagement period, and how that is handled varries. Sometimes, the couple lives together during the engagement, with the possibility of breaking it off prior to the (binding) marriage.

The idea of a 'temporary' marriage seems more akin to concubinage, where there was an agreement (of sorts), but the woman was not recognized as a wife and had fewer legal rights with regard to her...well, not husband, per se....patron?

Roman law recognized several different tiers of relationships, with Manus marriage being more binding, Free marriage being less binding, and Concubinage being legal but not marriage (any children were considered illegitimate and could not inherit). [url=http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/marrcustwom.html]HERE[/url] and [url=http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/ancientweddings5.html]here[/url] you will find a description of some of the different forms of marriage recognized in Roman law.

Obviously, I do not think this proposed law in Mexico is a good idea at all.

[Selah]

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A lifetime is not enough, for me

The Death due us part, part is hard ( unpleasant ). If only you could change that part.
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A Catholic nun, Sister Mary Martha (she has her own blog that I love) once posted that she believed we would still be married in heaven, we just wouldn't have any sexual intimacy. That's how we would be like the angels, not have sex I have no idea if that is dogmatic, but at best, it could be speculation. That said, since sex is a very small piece of marriage, it wouldn't be such a loss anyhow.

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A Catholic nun, Sister Mary Martha (she has her own blog that I love) once posted that she believed we would still be married in heaven, we just wouldn't have any sexual intimacy. That's how we would be like the angels, not have sex I have no idea if that is dogmatic, but at best, it could be speculation. That said, since sex is a very small piece of marriage, it wouldn't be such a loss anyhow.
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Granted, love in marriage encompasses much more than the act of conjugal love. Nevertheless, this action radiates a unique and special symbolism of the sacrament of marriage — the covenant shared between a man and a woman, who have become one flesh.
This act of marital love also participates in God’s creative love. The couple who has become a new creation by becoming husband and wife, one flesh, may also bring about the creation of new life in accord with God’s will.
There Life’s will never end, as Children, there protégé are the supreme gift of marriage

[MithLuin]

Hmmm, that's one way of trying to make sense of it. Another possibility is that the exclusivity of marriage will cease. Meaning...in heaven, we will know one another as we are fully known. The levels of intimacy involved in being in full communion with God and one another is not something I understand (let alone could explain), but I could see how this would potentially render the idea of being married to one unique person practically meaningless. That's not to say that you don't continue to have a deep, meaningful and loving relationship with your spouse...but that you have that kind of relationship with the entire communion of saints, too, potentially.

And I'm pretty sure what I just wrote could be taken the wrong way, so please take with a *huge* grain of salt and an understanding that earthly analogies are at best imperfect representations of what is going on in heaven.

Union with God is the point of heavenly existence. Human relationships have to make sense in that context.