Is the primary purpose of couples to breed? ( Archived) (43)

"sneakily going out of the dark"


That's an interesting thread, so I will put my "answer" (I understand "to breed" by create a new baby and bring it to adulthood. It's perhaps a bit more than what you mean.)

First girls doesn't need us anymore around them to grow up children
so it's no more the primary purpose now but it was in the past.

You choose your companion, not your child (ok, you can adopt some)
the child is given to you. He has is own stuff to do here (as you did.) the parents just protect and advise the young child. But when the child is adult, he/she lives her own life. Perhaps you will never see him/her again.

But your companion, if you choose well should stay with you all yours lifes.


"sneakily going back to the darkness)

That was pretty sneaky, Who. I wouldn't have even noticed if I hadn't been paying such close attention.

I like the point that people choose their companions, and (generally) not their children.

What I would say to all those people who wax mournful about the unpredictability of romantic love - and about their own problematic experiences with it - that if you approach it with the firm resolution that it will be the most important of relationships to you, that you are looking for someone to spend the rest of your life with - and for someone who feels the same way - then I think your chances are excellent that you will find that kind of love.

If, on the other hand, you approach relationships with a "what the heck, who can say how long it will last? It didn't in the past, and it probably won't again, but what the heck, might as well maybe give it a try," kind of attitude - which I've seen a fair bit of on CS since joining up - you will likely be experiencing an unpleasant variation of a "self-fulfilling prophecy."