Bernie:
I don’t know
whether marriage in its institutional sense is really necessary, except
that it makes social and governmental responsibilities easy, it gives
you some kind of way to have the right papers, and legal successions,
and so on. But a lot of what’s supposed to be new – the divorce
rate, the separations, and people living outside of marriage – went on
before, too, only it wasn’t talked about. It was kept quiet.
‘Cause in the 19th century, the 18th century, the 16th century, it all
went on. It may be more so now, but I don’t know.
But what makes
people get negative about each other, particularly after years of marriage,
and having a family, and kids, I don’t know. I find it very difficult
to understand. Maybe I find it difficult to understand because it
hasn’t happened to us. Maybe that’s why. Because we always
manage to be on the same track, and whatever small things come along,
we settle.
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