I hear this all the time.

Men shouldn’t get husband privileges without a ring.

I’m specifying this side of it because I rarely hear men speaking this way concerning women.

I think that it is safe to say that most of us understand that marriage is an ancient institution with some favorable and some not so favorable origins.

Marriage in it’s origins consisted of arrangements made between parents or a male suitor and the brides parents. There wasn’t this long courting process. An agreement was made, you exchanged vows, you consummated and carried on with your husbandly or wifely duties as it pertained to that culture, because people were brought up to be beneficial to a household based on gender(understanding that even back then not everyone executed well).

Nowadays we date forever before we get married. There is a lot of time between the start of dating and the wedding, assuming there is even a betrothal at all. There is sex of all sorts, money spending, so on and so forth but some of these same people have the nerve to dictate what one can and can’t get without the ring.

Listen, I understand that there has to be different kinds of boundaries in this day and age b.u.t. you also have to watch the ingredients you put in the pot.

You can not gather the ingredients for soup then expect a pie to come out. Think about it.