Article: Marriage rules

Robinson, Tony
Caribbean Today
10-31-2001
Marriage rules

Many people have had much to say about marriage. Actually, more people talk
about it before the fact than after, as after the door has been shut, many
husbands can't get a word in edgewise, or dare not say anything.

"Yes, dear. No, dear. Anything you say, dear." That is the lament of the
dearly dispossessed. Even so, that old crooner Frank Sinatra did sing:
"Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and
carriage. This I tell you brother, You can't have one without the other."

Good old Frank, making it all sound so rosy. But love has nothing to do
with it, as Tina Turner sang. The fact is, marriage has rules, and the
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