James Sexton

It's good enough.

It's fine.

I don't want to deal with all the other stuff, you know.

Or like they're like, yeah, you know, it's good, it's bad, whatever.

But I know like one that's like, oh, my God.

Okay, but yet we're just marching down the aisle, man.

We're just doing this.

It's assumed you're going to do it.

And if you're not doing it, there's something wrong with you.

Do you think that we should normalize long-term relationships where marriage is not the end goal?

No.

I think we should be honest about what marriage is.

Marriage is a state concept.

Someone once said, God is the name we give to the blanket that we put over a mystery to give it shape.

I think marriage is a thing we put on top of a certain kind of romantic love.

because we think it's going to keep it safe.

It gives a name to something, you know, like Wittgenstein said, you know, where understanding fails or where it comes to take its place.

I think marriage is like a name we give to a type of relationship we aspire to.

But really what marriage is, is a government creation.

It's a legal status.