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%MARRIAGE VOWS 780327
Marriage as commonly perceived is a technical
arrangement for the regulation of intimate relationships
between two individuals of opposite sex. The terms of the
arrangement are incompletely pointed to by the explicit
vows of the marriage ceremony. There are additional
implicit vows which are rarely expressed in words, but
which operate with power to regulate activities within the
marriage. Marriage vows tend to promote reliable behavior
on the part of the partners to the arrangement---so that
they can depend upon each other to behave in predictable
ways which facilitate efficient planning of the activities
of the corporate venture.
As in the business world, partners in a corporate
marriage venture are discouraged from engaging in intimate
communications with partners in other competing corporate
ventures. The product of the marriage is in competition
with the products of other marriages, and such competition
would be undermined by intimate communications with
competitors. In addition, time spent in such
communication would be robbed from the time which should
be spent in building the home. The ideal marriage is a 24
hour per day responsibility and all time must be accounted
for as contributing to the building of the corporate
product. Partners and junior members of the marriage
corporation must keep track of each other to be sure time
is being properly spent
As in a business corporation the work of participants
in a family must each do their job, act according to the
prescribed work ritual. Thus there must be ways to
promote conformity to the prescribed work ritual. If
there is not agreement upon what the prescribed work
ritual is, the energies of the corporate workers shifts to
devising various techniques for promoting conformity to
one's own conception of what each worker's task is.
Parents may feel that children's task is to be "ideal
children". Children may feel that the parents' task is to
provide all necessary parental services quickly,
cheerfully, and without question. Outsiders may think
that all have the responsibility for promoting harmony or
the appearance of harmony---since that makes the product
of the marriage more competitive. Since marriage is
sealed by God, to question the vows is sacrilege. "Go to
jail."
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