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Thursday Think 'n' Share LXIV
News of the world, marriage and sex. In that order, but with no necessary connection between the three. It's another Thursday Think 'n' Share! Read, think, write, leave a comment.
How are you affected by the news as reported in radio, tv, and in the newspapers?
Well, in the first place, most of my news comes from the radio, specifically the local NPR station. How does it affect me, though? That's tough. Sometimes it makes me sad or outraged, sometimes I find it interesting and take it under advisement. I'm rarely really surprised by the news. Take that for what it's worth.
Do you think marriage should be a fifty-fifty partnership? Explain.
Yes, I suppose so, though I expect that it's easy to say "fifty-fifty" and it's another thing to understand exactly what that means. What exactly is being split? The work? The finances? It's hard really to quantify those things--even the dollars that would seem to be easily quantifiable (equal amounts? equal percentages?). And what does splitting the work mean? If I do the cooking and the laundry, is that equal to the dishes and the cleaning? Do we do all the same things just taking turns? I guess when it comes down to it, I think it's good as an abstract principle so that one partner isn't bearing the load while the other rides easy, but each couple needs to work out for themselves what that is.
What constitutes a good sexual relationship?
I guess it comes down to the same idea as the last: each couple (or temporary coupling, or each group initiative) needs to figure out what constitutes "good." I would think that it would involve a relationship in which both parties are happy with the sex: happy with the frequency, happy with the specific acts, happy with the execution of it.