About Marriage

Marriage is whatever the people in the marriage say it is. There is no right or wrong way to do marriage. This is reflected by the fact that people write their own vows commonly these days. The marriage "contract" is between the parties in the contract. Done with consent, changing the nature of the marriage is renegotiating the contract not breaking any vows. You cannot break an agreement you agreed to change. How one marriage is structured; closed, open or sexless, has no bearing on other marriages and does not invalidate or otherwise reflect poorly on the people involved as long as it is done consensually. Other parties are entitled to have opinions on marriages that are not their own, but they are not relevant really and the people in a marriage need feel no shame regarding their relationship structure. Marriage is a contract that may be terminated by either party unilaterally, at any time, without fault. That is the nature of marriage and therefore not a source of relevant shaming.