06-19-2017, 07:28 AM
(06-18-2017, 05:02 PM)New Guy Wrote:(06-18-2017, 03:16 PM)dicappatore Wrote:Agree. It is sad.(06-18-2017, 03:03 PM)New Guy Wrote: Hello Hell,
It is easy to read the data about marriage and society. In education, finance, and crime, marriage matters. Children are particularly affected by marital status of parents:
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/m...ildren.cfm
IMO, Juliette was not able to take marital vows. She did not love him. She made no commitment to him. Nick bought a ring and proposed. She spurned him.
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Here is a non-scientific observation.
When I was in grade school. Way back in the 60’s. Having a classmate with divorced parents was rare. Maybe one or two in a class.
When my kids were in grade school back in the late 90’s & early 2K, classmate of theirs with their non-divorced parents was uncommon. More of their classmates had divorced parents than non-divorced. Maybe 50 to 60%. As a society, whatever we are doing is not working well..
That doesn't mean what we as a society were doing before was working. More divorces today just tells me that they were plenty of unhappy marriages but they felt forced to stay together.
Juliette saying no to marriage doesn't mean there is no love. That just means it wasn't the right time. Juliette turning Nick's proposal down had as much to do with him as it did with her. He was was essentially lying to her face every day. Their relationship was doomed but that doesn't erase the love that was there. Living together and being faithful for years is a huge commitment.
This doesn't excuse anything Juliette did in season 4. The "Hexenbiest made me do it' defense is a bunch of a crap and I thought the same thing when Adalind said it but their relationship prior to that was still meaningful. That just made the betrayal that much more difficult to watch.