liminal wrote:
One of the reasons why I feel myself becoming opposed to the very idea of relationship is that it all too often leads to abuse.
I've known young Aspie women who have repeatedly fallen for sociopathic men. They enter a toxic relationship (for reasons that I am not quite certain of, but I suppose it involves desperation), suffer physical and sexual abuse, and finally escape - only to end up in another relationship of this kind a short time later.
The concept of marriage seems, in my mind, to be a hangover from the days when women were the property of their husbands. But this attitude still persists. An example I recall is from a conversation I overheard while I was in a pharmacy, a year or two ago:
A man, with a whiny sounding voice in a bitter tone, says to a woman: "you will do as I say and you will wait here for me!"
The woman replies, in a depressed and defeated tone: "why ...."
He says, increasing the speed of his voice: "because otherwise you will never see me again, do you understand me!"
He then exits the store, while she just stands there waiting, and looking sad.
I disagree with marriage being outdated, children raised within a marriage statistically are better off. I think people conceptualise marriage as being about a couples love for each other when historically and ideally it should represent their devolution to their new family unit.