Gabriele Pauli (CSU) is for time-limited marriage - Germany

I did a quick google on "How many of zard's friends are married?" but regretfully did not get any decent results.

It would be a hassle having to get the "permit" renewed every 7 years. Why don't they just make it really easy to divorce?

Actually it would be a lot less hassle if when asked "do you take so-and-so ... til death do you part? " , the parties ,well , at least one of them , replied "No"... asking a bit much I'm afraid but there you have it.

Why not just simplify the divorce process and costs instead of some renewable marriage bs? Sounds like an easier fix to me.

We could just ban marriage and accept it was just a control mechanism that humanity has grown out of.

That's a good point. I know far too many men being slowly hen-pecked to death by their controlling wives.

Not read the whole thread so apologies if this point of view has already been stated but isn't re-marriage every 7 years like being convicted of the same crime on multiple occasions?

Whatever happened to double jeopardy ?

Hardly a reasonable analogy; a driving licence doesn't need to be renewed if you buy a new car, nor can it be lost if you get caught driving a hire car.

But this renewal proposal sounds more like a marriage tax to me.

think it was a bloody good idea when you could only expect to live to 30...if you were lucky

think if 7 years was the norm most marriages that dont make it to the 5 years mark might try holidng on.. and that might help in the long run.. teach you to work things out.

they might even get a refund !

I personally lean towards Schwandorf - perhaps not incidentally, the location of one of Stoiber's more notable mouth-offs.

The locals thought it was one of the better things a politician had said lately.

"So who do you want to be chancellor, Schroeder or Merkel?" I asked Elfride, an older lady who lives there and came to my town pub to meet up with her friends, shortly after that incident (just before the 2005 election).

"Stoiber!"

Bavarian politics: one of my favorite spectator sports.

Complete the analogy: if Bavaria is the Texas of Germany, then the Oberpfalz is the ___________.

For those who have followed this controversy, the following article should be of interest:

http://de.news.yahoo.com/ap/20070921/tde-p...-32ddaa5_1.html
Pauli is said to have plagiated her idea from the well-known Franconian comedian Erwin Pelzig.

No, it is in Schwabing, in my room!

I'd have thought S+M adverts were better in the adult section?

I think next step can be to allow parallel marriage contracts like it is allowed for mobile phones...what a f***ing stupid though!!!