Just checking...

I just pulled out my marriage certificate. Of course being incredibly over organized I knew exactly where to find this little underused document.

I wanted to know if there was something on it about *owning* a spouse once married. Nope, nothing. Something perhaps about one person being an *insignificant other*. Again nothing on the license.(issued by Cook County, Nevada... I'm not even sure if we're legally married...)

I must have a different certificate then some people I know. Or perhaps others have an Addendum, Appendix, Schedule A, or a Post Script that we don't have.

Some people, (who don't think much beyond their small lives) think that they own their spouses. They lay down laws: "Don't even think you're going out tonight!" B!tch for no reason: "I can't believe your home late!" and even publicly humiliate their spouse: "I told you ten minutes ago that we're leaving, and then you get another drink, I told you to pack up our stuff and get in the car - NOW!"

I'm really grateful that we lack that clause. It wouldn't be very much fun to be kept under a thumb, constantly put down, and generally spend a life walking, eating, sleeping, breathing, pooping and thinking on eggshells. Not much of a life really.

So why not prepare a new document and move on? Here's why: kids, fear, finances, and the simple fact that some people are better as spouse than an psycho ex-spouses.