Prenuptial Agreements to Lose Weight, Have Sex

Prenups

Whatever happened to "til death do us part"? I guess I'm old fashioned at my 28 years of age, but I think the whole idea of a prenuptial agreement is ridiculous. If we go into marriage expecting to get divorced, doesn't that make our vows null? Its no wonder that over half of marriages end in divorce! I for one will not even consider a prenuptial agreement when I get married. When I make a vow I mean it and I will not put stipulations on my love or on the vows that I make.

To RD of GA

I'm the guy you criticize for advocating national health care.

You have hit correctly on (some of) the problems with our current system of private insurance.

It can and does bankrupt millions of people. Pre-existing conditions except in the largest groups are basically not insurable. Insurance companies do go broke, leaving policyholders in the twin lurch of not having claims covered and then having to go back to the market only to be refused for the future. "Competitive marketing" means participants always have to pay estra for sales commissions and advertising costs (for WHAT, by the way?) Individual states have widely-varying laws and degrees of insurance supervision. Such legislation in those states is always a political football and an uncertainty for citizens.

Find us a national strategy that eliminates these problems for individuals and I'll be happy to agree with you about not having the government "run" the health care. But FIND US the solution, please, before you knock the rest of us who have a grasp on the problems that most "conservatives" merely ignore.

Prenups

Is this the state of marriage today? If so, how sad. If your relationship is based on such shallow ideas as this, you are in big trouble from the start. Find someone you love for the right reasons, not how often you have sex, or how slim they are!!! SAD,SAD,SAD!!!

I don't see it.

Of course, in every marriage there are expectations of each other. But the chances of a marriage surviving with "if you do this, then - and only then - will I do that..." requirements of each other are doomed from the get-go. A marriage based on meeting such criteria is a business transaction, not a relationship of shared intimacy. At some subconscious level they know there isn't space for honesty or trust, that the "love" is conditional, and therefore, they can't grow any further than their own fears and limitations.

What?

This is just beyond the top. (shaking head) Can't blame the lawyers so much as it's the customers who come up with this garbage. I cannot believe that this is the world we live in sometimes.

Re: That the subject of this article even exists...

First commenter - a few observations:

. There's no NEED for health insurance clauses in prenups. The decision to add them, like like the decision to marry itself, accept or reject a clause in a prenup, or even whether or not to keep health insurance, is subject to free will. And SHOULD be.

. I agree that health insurance corporations & their laywers have cheated their fair share of customers out of their legally entitled health benefits, as well as the rights to have their medical procedures covered, etc. But to jump from A to Z, and conclude that gov't is the solution, is foolish. Remember, such a notion is only the PROMISE of 'greater good', and comes at the cost of liberty, with yet more control ceded to the State.

I grew up in a country with socialized medicine - one of the better systems out there - and yet nobody who wanted decent care would rely on it. (I wound up covered under a private plan that did provide decent options and good coveage at affordable rates. I'm not saying the insurers in this country aren't crooks, I'm just saying there are other ways to deal with the problem than to punish everyone by imposing a totalitarian system on the rest of us.)

. There are many steps short of nationalized health care that would help instantly, such as (1) legislation banning the pre-emptive use of pre-existing conditions and other clauses to play games with the patient's coverage; and (2) preventing insurers from making risky, 'wheeler-dealer' investments with patients' insurance premiums, which they then have to make up by playing both sides against the middle, robbing doctors and patients alike.

. I disagree with the notion that the existence/relevance of this article is due in any way to either 'corporations' (?), or to lawyers per se. The more obvious trend reflected here is our culture's headlong descent into destructive narcissism, combined with our immature desire to have *everything* in our life insured, guaranteed and enforced by court decree. Like government-run health care, for example (which I believe was your gentle suggestion, was it not?).

But of course - I'm totally wrong and off-base here. Our entire culture of selfish indulgence and narcissism would go away if 'only' we had socialized medicine. Forgive me.

Huh?

Golddiggers and Sugar-Daddies. "Love" nowadays is defined by lawyers.

Sex

Funny, I am the one (male) that is no longer into the sex. haha. For you guys out there you should include a prenup that says if you are allowed at least 6 affairs a year.

When we have (as we SHOULD have) a national health care plan that covers everyone birth to death, there will be no need for health insurance clauses in prenups. You will then be properly free to marry the one you love and care for him or her lovingly "in sickness and in health".

That the subject of this article even exists is proof positive that your private "life" is subject to the whims of lawyers and corporations. The "protection of marriage" stuff talked about by conservatives should be the adoption of national health care.

As for sex, nothing written on paper by a lawyer is going to make that work better. Don't believe me? Just try a "clause" or two and see for yourself..