7 Year Hitch
Frankly I think it is a good idea that there should be clauses in marriage that actually expire the marital relationship in seven years. Yes, that’s what a German politician, Ms. Gabriele Pauli of the Christian Social Union, proposed. She should know, she has been married three times. Sadly she lost to an old fuddy-duddy, Erwin Huber. As intriguing her notions are I don’t see how to make it work amicably between married couples, especially when the issues of children are in the picture. However, it is worth noting since there are many marriages that fail within the first few years. Maybe the jet set will start the trend, but they already have higher divorce rate than ordinary people anyway. The Telegraph's articles on the subject is quoted below for your reading pleasure.
German politician argues for 7-year marriagesBy Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
Last Updated: 3:55am BST 21/09/2007
A latex-wearing, twice-divorced German politician has stunned her staunchly conservative party by suggesting marriages make way for the seven-year itch.
Gabriele Pauli is desperate to shake up CSU politics
Gabriele Pauli is everything that most politicians in the CSU — the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU — are not. For a start, she is a woman. But she is also a flame-haired motorcyclist, who in one photo shoot eschewed the traditional dress that southern Germans love for latex.
Her latest outburst came as she campaigned for the leadership of the CSU, one of Germany's top political jobs.
"The basic approach is wrong… many marriages last just because people believe they are safe," she said. "My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years."
For many in the CSU, including her chief rivals for the leadership, her words are an affront to the sacrament of marriage and the Catholic values which are deeply engrained in the party.
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But Miss Pauli, 50, has said she is desperate to shake up the staid ways of CSU politics.
"This is about bringing ideas into the CSU and starting a discussion," she said yesterday.
Whatever the success of her attempts to stir up controversy, it seems highly unlikely that Miss Pauli will succeed at the CSU polls next week. There, the principal contenders are Erwin Huber, the local economy minister, and Horst Seehofer, the federal food and agriculture minister.
Mr Seehofer described Miss Pauli's seven-year itch idea as "absurd and totally contrary to the program of the CSU".
"We are not in a circus," he said. "With ideas like that, she should give up her candidacy."
However, Mr Seehofer, a 58 year-old married father of three, has come under pressure to give up his own candidacy after it was revealed that he had been having an affair with a younger woman who recently had his baby.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/21/wmarry121.xml
German politician argues for 7-year marriagesBy Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
Last Updated: 3:55am BST 21/09/2007
A latex-wearing, twice-divorced German politician has stunned her staunchly conservative party by suggesting marriages make way for the seven-year itch.
Gabriele Pauli is desperate to shake up CSU politics
Gabriele Pauli is everything that most politicians in the CSU — the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU — are not. For a start, she is a woman. But she is also a flame-haired motorcyclist, who in one photo shoot eschewed the traditional dress that southern Germans love for latex.
Her latest outburst came as she campaigned for the leadership of the CSU, one of Germany's top political jobs.
"The basic approach is wrong… many marriages last just because people believe they are safe," she said. "My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years."
For many in the CSU, including her chief rivals for the leadership, her words are an affront to the sacrament of marriage and the Catholic values which are deeply engrained in the party.
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But Miss Pauli, 50, has said she is desperate to shake up the staid ways of CSU politics.
"This is about bringing ideas into the CSU and starting a discussion," she said yesterday.
Whatever the success of her attempts to stir up controversy, it seems highly unlikely that Miss Pauli will succeed at the CSU polls next week. There, the principal contenders are Erwin Huber, the local economy minister, and Horst Seehofer, the federal food and agriculture minister.
Mr Seehofer described Miss Pauli's seven-year itch idea as "absurd and totally contrary to the program of the CSU".
"We are not in a circus," he said. "With ideas like that, she should give up her candidacy."
However, Mr Seehofer, a 58 year-old married father of three, has come under pressure to give up his own candidacy after it was revealed that he had been having an affair with a younger woman who recently had his baby.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/21/wmarry121.xml
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