Comic Emily Hartridge convinces us that marriage is worth our while (and dances in her cute pajama shorts).
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About Gint Aras
Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Zukauskas) has been trapped on planet earth since 1973. He’s the award winning author of the memoir, "Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen,” (Homebound, 2019) and the novels “The Fugue” (Tortoise, 2016) and “Finding the Moon in Sugar” (Infinity, 2009). He splits his time between Klaipėda, Lithuania and Chicago, Illinois. Check out his website: Liquid Ink.
I do love being married. It’s no guarantee we’ll want to go to the same movie, and there’ll be no squeezing of fruit metaphors out of other fruit metaphors in this marriage, thanks, but there’s the support, and the sex, and the kissing, and those are really good.
@Justin…. Great to hear you have a seemingly healthy marriage. Seriously. It is something that eluded me during my years of marriage. So, I have given up and decided to go in a different direction with women. I would argue that for most married men, yours is atypical. But, I guess it depends on how long you have been married. When it comes to sex and intimacy, I think marriage is a killer for those two things. Nearly a third of all marriages are sexless. I would further argue that another 50% lack any degree of real enthusiasm for sex… Read more »
Yeah…I don’t feel comfortable getting married while, in the US, gay people don’t have the equal right to get married.
I do love being married. It’s no guarantee we’ll want to go to the same movie, and there’ll be no squeezing of fruit metaphors out of other fruit metaphors in this marriage, thanks, but there’s the support, and the sex, and the kissing, and those are really good.
So you cant get the sex and kissing w/o getting married?
No, that’s not the logical conclusion. It’s only that these things are nice benefits of marriage, not that you can’t get them otherwise.
@Justin…. Great to hear you have a seemingly healthy marriage. Seriously. It is something that eluded me during my years of marriage. So, I have given up and decided to go in a different direction with women. I would argue that for most married men, yours is atypical. But, I guess it depends on how long you have been married. When it comes to sex and intimacy, I think marriage is a killer for those two things. Nearly a third of all marriages are sexless. I would further argue that another 50% lack any degree of real enthusiasm for sex… Read more »