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It seems traditional marriage is flawed in our country. Hell, maybe the whole world. People are always talking about how they can't trust their spouse. Monogamy is supposedly against human nature to be the sexual creatures we are designed to be. Some even suggest that we--men--were never supposed to be married because being tied down to one lover means that our testosterone-driven labidos would be stifled by the pragmatism of the same face every day. Smh. It's an age-old problem that has been swept under the rug for generations. However, in the highly vocal and more self-indulgent era of 2011 lots of people speak up about their inability to be committed. Or worse, they get caught demonstrating they can't be trusted.

The entertainment and professional athlete industries have given us a slew of examples of unfaithful lovers caught with their pants down. Jesse James, Kelsey Grammer, Charlie Sheen, Jaime Pressly, Ashlee Simpson n Pete Wentz, David n Courtney Arquette. Don't even get me started on Tiger Woods. And it's not just the stars that have trouble keeping their marriages together. Currently, the United States leads the world with the highest divorce rate anywhere. I know we like to be first in almost everything as a nation, but this is ridiculous. Statistics reveal a disturbing trend with regards to commitment in our country.

The point is, the list of problems goes on. People find it harder and harder to be committed to one person. Sleeping with their significant other and a revolving door of nameless flings. Has monogamy done this to us? Or have we done this to ourselves? Has the oversexualization of media raped our psyches to the point where we never learned to control teenage hormones? Are we a society of adolescent adults who can't keep it in their pants?

Some people have even gone as far as to offer amnesty for outside affairs with the consummated lover, provided they tell them. A movie out right now discusses this idea of how to keep a marriage alive. They suggest women should allow their husbands a bit of "time off," if you will, within their marriage. Allow your man to give in to his primal urges and then return to your bed afterwards. One athlete suggests it's just the way it goes. Men are gonna cheat on you anyway. Check out his article here. http://deadspin.com/#!5769488 Really? Are you shitting me? It sort of makes a mockery of what the vows of matrimony are. Or it suggests something even more problematic. Has the institution of marriage been a sham from the beginning? That's a hard pill to swallow. Maybe we're all kidding ourselves. Or maybe the whole world really has just lost their damn mind. You be the judge. I'm just sayin.


See the links below for more about marriages falling apart.

http://www.popeater.com/category/celebrity-splitsville/

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/galleries/most_expensive_celebrity_divorces/most_expensive_celebrity_divorces.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/celebrity_photos/item_LcR0qb7Qt1YAdVKuoYd2TK