(03-02-2017, 03:22 PM)New Guy Wrote:(03-02-2017, 12:18 PM)irukandji Wrote: Hey New Guy,Hi Iruk,
You do have a point about Juliette and Nick living in sin. But that is contingent upon one or both of them being brought up in a belief that it is a sin to live together. Neither of them seems to belong to any denomination. In fact, Nick poked a bit of fun at the tent revival episode. So, for the purposes of this discussion, they could live together and Juliette was indeed right to put honesty as a condition of their marriage.
Thanks for your reply.
The word sin has religious connotation. Fornication violates moral codes of conduct for several religions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_sexuality
The biological and societal consequences. For example if King Frederick and Elizabeth Lascelles, were husband and wife would Sean Renard behave as he does? Consider Diana and how she longs to have Mommy and Daddy in love and growing up in a family.
Some say "it takes a village" yet the research continues to find significant benefits for children raised in a family:
http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publi...s/0086.pdf
The bottom line IMO, if Juliette did not want to marry Nick, she should not be his FWB nor should he have been hers.
N G
Hello New Guy-
I think Diana's problems stem much deeper than the lack of a cohesive family.
As for Juliette and Nick, they do not appear to be even poorly versed in the spiritual. I have to digress here for a minute, because for Nick, I find that a strange contradiction with all he's encountered.
But back to basics. Both Nick and Juliette worked in professions that don't allow a lot of room for spiritual enlightenment. No doubt Juliette has encountered surgery situations where everything went right and the patient died anyway, leaving her to deal with a broken hearted family.
Nick, on the other hand, would have seen the worst of the human element, giving him pause to no doubt wonder why he just doesn't stick a gun up to his forehead and call it quits.
It's interesting to me that you would term them friends with benefits. While I have never seen them as passionate lovers, I do see a very deep friendship between them. I always wondered why they never built from that foundation. Anyway, if there were benefits for them, more power to them.
My real issue is with the brains who decided Juliette needed a complete overhaul.
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