Why on earth are you insistently doubting what’s clearly the obvious?

By Stanley Collymore

You’re questioning me why it is that I haven’t asked you

or don’t express any interest in wanting to marry

you? Well, just answer these few questions

truthfully and I’m quite sure that the

reasons will indeed become self-

explanatory. First, you want to have children,

albeit for all the very wrong reasons, and I

personally don’t want any. And while

your choice in that regard is firmly

fixed, mine is equally constant.

Furthermore, having loads of

money is a fervent fixation

of yours, but though I’ve

nothing myself against

having a comfortable

existence, frugality,

which you clearly

abhor, is a prime

virtue with me.

And while you see sex as an unpleasant duty and

even as a burdensome chore to be disposed

of expeditiously I distinctly regard it

as a cardinal characteristic of

every meaningful, interpersonal relationship

with whomsoever I’m closely involved

with romantically. So bearing in

mind just these relatively

few things among

various others

I’m certain

I can find,

You, with your much flaunted intelligence,

should easily cotton on to where exactly

it is that I’m coming from. And why

a marriage with you is as viable

and desirable a proposition to me in such

circumstances, as if I or some other

likeminded person were to idiot-

ically assume that we could

individually and entirely

unassisted by anyone,

successfully swim

the voluminous

waters of the

expansive

Atlantic

Ocean -

alone!

© Stanley V. Collymore

30 August 2019.

Author’s Comments:

Marriage is and should always be regarded, I feel, as significantly more than just a personal fancy or worse still a manufactured case of subserviently or even slavishly subjugating one’s self to the capricious fantasies of whatever dominant and invariably intrusive society those who’re contemplating it happen to be in.

For marriage is crucially about being genuinely in love with the person whom you honestly declare that you mutually want to share your life with together; and whatever successes and or setbacks you either individually or jointly experience  during that subsequent evolutionary process you’re involved in, you’ll willingly and unequivocally both share and deal with these consensually and together.

Not something, and yes it is marriage I’m still referring to, to hastily indulge in or hurriedly retreat from to suit the inconsequential, societal vagaries of the day.