Contract or Ongoing Negotiation?
‘Marriage is not a contract but an ongoing negotiation,’ so said one of the characters in the new TV show Blue Bloods. ‘Now there’s a topic for a blog,’ Mick said. Indeed it is. First I have to disagree, not with Mick but the comment. To me marriage is a contract, a binding contract. ’Till death do us part,’ sounds pretty binding to me. It is a contract and a commitment made before witnesses and often before God. However there is a sense in which marriage is also an ongoing negotiation. The very word ‘negotiate’ means, according to the dictionary, … Continue reading