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" There&amp;#039;s a movement afoot in Mexico City to legalize &amp;quot;temporary marriages&amp;quot;. These marriages would be contracted for a two year period, at the end of which the couple can choose to extend for a lifetime or go their own separate ways without all the legal entanglements of a typical marriage. In a country where half of all divorces occur in the first two years, it makes a certain sense. Of course, the proposal has met with a lot of resistance, which should come as no surprise in this heavily Catholic nation. Temporary marriages are not a new thing at all \u2013 in the middle ages (and the custom still lingers today in certain groups), some couples practiced &amp;quot;handfasting&amp;quot;, pledging themselves for a year and a day. Back then, this usually favored the man \u2013 if he wanted to trade in his bride, he simply returned her to her parents at the end of the handfasting. In most cases her odds of making a good marriage afterward were greatly diminished while her husband simply found himself a new bride to try out. And while it might not be a bad idea to give people who marry in haste a chance to &amp;quot;un-do&amp;quot;, playing musical marriages is no way to have a mature relationship. There&amp;#039;s something to be said for commitment, to sticking it through, to you-and-me-no-matter-what. The kind of growth you get personally from learning to grow together (instead of splitting apart every couple of years and trying again) is invaluable, and really changes you as a person, I think. What do you think, readers? Is a trial marriage a good idea whose time has come? Or is it just asking for trouble? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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