>This type of mentality is why
>Western divorce rates are so
>high. Westerners do not
>have CLUE WHAT "LOVE" IS!!!

I think this is a great point. I've never thought about it in these terms before, but maybe it is possible to say that people often just throw caution to the wind and assume that wherever there's a storm of emotion, that's all that's necessary.

One of my favorite books is _The Screwtape Letters,_ by C. S. Lewis. There's a section in there...I don't have it with me right now so I gotta paraphrase, where he talks about how often people think that "falling in love" is a prerequisite for marriage. "As if a commitment to lifelong loyalty and mutual help were anything less than a storm of emotion." (Or something like that.) I guess this conversation wasn't originally about marriage, it was about interracial dating. Two different things. Your point just got me all fired up tho'. Hey, it all relates.

My feeling about interracial dating (and I've done it before) is that when you meet a good person for you, you've just met a good person, no matter who they are. Period, paragraph end.

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