Re: affairs

Oh, Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaasssse on both counts.
The "Let it all Hang out" philosophy went out with the 60's. I am so sick of the "If we don't use it it will shrivel up" song and dance. Real adults know what they're getting into when they make a committment, and then hold up their end of the bargain, or if they can't, they come clean and bow out with honesty. Real hypocrasy is taking a vow of fidelity and then pretending to maintain that vow, while going around someone's back to put your own needs before anyone else's. The institute of marriage has also been around since before infidelity, otherwise, infidelity could never have been invented, as it is based on monogamy. If infidelity were so mentally healthy (and I'm talking about the mental health of all parties involved, not just the individual) then there would be no such thing as marriage. Humans, unlike some animal species, are programmed to be raised most optimally by two parents. When a child is produced by a parent who is not involved in that child's life (because he is married to someone else), the child, if no one else, is the one who suffers. I don't care what you say about single mothers doing a good job. I agree that many do a fantastic job. But the bottom line is that children develop optimally when there is a father in the family.

As for your recent jab at the mental health profession, I am so sick of people characterizing us as money-mongers. If I go into debt $30,000 and spend three years getting my master's, then I deserve to make more than a Burger King employee. Would you want to be treated by someone who went to a community college and maybe has taken a Psych 200 course? Because you are not going to get anyone to go through the time and expense of higher education without a means to pay back those student loans before retirement.

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Re: affairs-hypocrisy wears many faces, by Alex., 4/21/00 Re: affairs-hypocrisy wears many faces, by Sarah, 4/23/00 Re: affairs-hypocrisy wears many faces, by Monica, 4/23/00 Re: affairs-hypocrisy wears many faces, by Monica, 4/23/00 Re: affairs, by Joni B., 4/27/00 Re: affairs-hypocrisy wears many faces, by Alex., 4/21/00 Re: affairs, by Know it when I smell it, 06/05/01

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