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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly OP, grow up. What do you think marriage is for? It’s for exactly what you’re doing now. Not for excitement, newness, novelty, or even good sex. Marriage is for long term stability. [/quote]

My parents are 75 and 78. They love movies and saw at least one every week when I was still at home. They’re not adventurous eaters but they went out to eat together regularly. They travelled. They talked to each other. My father brought home flowers every Friday of their marriage. 
And they somehow managed to be very involved parents too.

Since I moved out thirty years ago, they’ve fallen in love again. They took dance lessons, cooking classes, have travelled the world, entertain their friends, go to plays, the ballet, sports events. I even found The Joy of Sex in a drawer, which I don’t think they had for the first twenty years of their marriage.

It’s possible to have a solid stable and fun and loving marriage, even you’re compatible and value your partner’s happiness.

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OP here — Thanks for sharing this. I always thought what your parents have is the gold standard, but hardly rare or impossible to achieve in a marriage of two people who care about each other. There’s a core selfishness and intransigence in so many men, however. I wonder how many women of our generation will be glad we got married.[/quote]

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