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While we are on the topic of marriage...

By clock on August 25, 2006.

Read this great post by Amanda (who's really been on the roll lately): Weddings and fear

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From the link:

Men, of course, have the power to end all this suffering by speaking up and asking for marriage. That they often don�t speak up until the women have worn themselves out worrying is a great example of how those with power will relinquish it reluctantly.

That anyone can say (write) this with a straight face is flabbergasting.