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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 489135" data-attributes="member: 8804">Not that it deserves justification......but I actually have a great girlfriend.  I've just been burned too many times in the past by clinically insane women, and I've had too many friends burned by the same thing.  That and humans really aren't designed for marriage.  Look at the divorce rates.  Look at how the social attitudes surrounding "marriage" have changed.  Call me anarchistic, call me jaded, call me whatever.  But there are biological signs in human behavior that point directly back to the animal kingdom (we are, after all, simply animals with an intricate system of language and culture).  And in the animal kingdom, there are barely a handful of species that actually mate with a life-partner.  Every other species chooses different mates each season.  Is it possible that we are one of those "life-partner" species?  Absolutely.  Do I really believe that?  Not a chance.  But maybe it's just the evolutionary psychologist in me...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ~Box</blockquote>