(MMario, read it again- you'll see that John P was doing the same thing I did, using the analogy of 'putting up' with religion as compared with 'putting up' with homosexuality. I used race, not religion, but the approach is the same. Thanks, John P.)

"I've seen any number of couples who lived happily together for many years...then they got married and the relationship broke up in a year or two. I think it was possibly their subconscious ideas about "family" that brought things crashing down." Little Hawk

You may be right, LH, in fact, I'm sure that is the case at least sometimes. However, in my observations, I think that more often when a marriage breaks up relatively quickly even though the couple had lived together for years, it is because in all likelihood their relationship had gotten rocky- and they got married in an effort to shore it up. Just as people sometimes have a baby in the same effort.