Mexico City about to enact "two-year marriage renewal" contract's.

[Cowboy Brian]

http://loveisdope.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/two-year-renewable-marriage-contracts/

Local legislators in Mexico City are considering offering two-year renewable marriage contracts. The idea is that instead of a big messy, emotionally draining divorce, a couple could sign this two-year contract (which essentially has a built-in pre-nup that determines child custody and property division) and if the couple is unhappy at the end of the two years, they can simply part ways per the terms of the agreement. If they still want to rock it out, they can renew the contract.

According to the Globe and Mail , about half of Mexico City’s marriages end in divorce and many of those divorces take place in two years or less. So the legislature figures this is a nice happy medium.

I don’t rock with two-year renewable marriage contracts. Marriage is a lifelong commitment between two people (sorry fundamentalist Mormons). Sure, it doesn’t always work out, for a variety of reasons, but there needs to be a hard working spirit behind maintaining a life-long bond. If a marriage doesn’t work, it shouldn’t be because of a lack of trying. Sometimes people really do just grow apart, turn into different people, do something unforgivable, etc. It happens.

I think it's a good idea.

 

[peplaw06]

Ridiculous.

 

[Faerluna]

http://loveisdope.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/two-year-renewable-marriage-contracts/





I think it's a good idea.

I think it kinda negates the whole "till death do us part" thing and the idea of commitment.

You need 2 years to figure out if you may or may not want to stay married, then you need to not get married in the first place. You obviously don't know each other well enough.

 

[Faerluna]

Kinda reminds me of my old Jeep. I leased it first because I didn't know if I would like it or not. I bought it, but I could turn it back in and get something else if I didn't like it.

That being said, a marriage is not a car least. Not even a little.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Ridiculous.

Why? Because they won't need you?

 

[YosemiteSam]

You need 2 years to figure out if you may or may not want to stay maried, then you need to not get married in the first place. You obviously don't know each other well enough.

I think that is the point of the law. Most people shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Give them a preset easy way to terminate that mistake.

 

[poke]

New ??? Mexico ?

 

[CowboyMike]

Um, check the thread title. The article says Mexico City, as in Mexico City in the country of Mexico. Not NEW Mexico.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I think that is the point of the law. Most people shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Give them a preset easy way to terminate that mistake.

Yup. I think it's a good idea. The "til death do you part" thing sounds nice, but that's just not where we are as a society anymore. It's time to adapt.

 

[peplaw06]

Why? Because they won't need you?

Please. A two-year "marriage contract" would give me MORE business.

 

[theogt]

Please. A two-year "marriage contract" would give me MORE business.

:money:

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Without a doubt, one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of.

 

[roughneck266]

Seems to me if you are in doubt about your relationship, you are either not meant to be or you havent been together long enough to consider marriage. Divorce has become so easy we had to add an express lane.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Please. A two-year "marriage contract" would give me MORE business.

In that situation, it might not. "Have what you have" is an easy way to log you out.

 

[nablives]

Maybe it's just too late in the evening and my eyes are too far closed, but I'm trying to think of a reason this idea is so horrible, and I don't mean in a bible-thumper kind of a way.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

Maybe it's just too late in the evening and my eyes are too far closed, but I'm trying to think of a reason this idea is so horrible, and I don't mean in a bible-thumper kind of a way.

It's kind of in the same vein as the 72-hour waiting period in Texas. That was a way to make sure people didn't rush into marriage. This is a way to let people have a non-messy way out of marriage if it's not working out.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Maybe it's just too late in the evening and my eyes are too far closed, but I'm trying to think of a reason this idea is so horrible, and I don't mean in a bible-thumper kind of a way.

Imagine all the children who will end up in a broken home because their parents had an "easy out" instead of trying to work things out like adults.

This society has become so preoccupied with trying to figure out ways to avoid consequences of their actions and trying to avoid responsibility that we have become a shell of our former selves, and thus, our former greatness.

And there is nothing wrong with using the Bible as a compass.

 

[Rynie]

The whole institution of marriage is pointless.

 

[ZeroClub]

Couples can choose to get married or they can live together unmarried.

Having another choice doesn't seem so bad.

... might be more popular among those who have already been through one divorce.

 

[zrinkill]

Kid cannot even read.