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Originally posted by James
However, I have noticed that the purpose of labeling a relationship as "committed" or "engaged" or married even, is to keep the other partner in the relationship when they are no longer as interested as they used to be.
Otherwise we wouldn't need labels right?
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James, I think that the point of labels is the point of any verbal communication - to have a mutual understanding of what is going on. Otherwise, you get caught up in assumptions, assuming what you think is going on.
no one can keep anyone in a relationship that that person doesn't want to be in. Not even labels - otherwise, the term "breaking up" and "divorce" wouldn't exist b/c they necessarily imply that there was a committed relationship or a marriage that one party (or both parties) could not be forced to stay in
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