AIBU to think that MN is unreaasonble to have a divorce thread...

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... a realtionship thread even a sleep thread but not a marriage thread? How can marriage be redefined if MN doesn't even recognise it?

This is a marriage thread. So there is now a marriage thread on MN and you can die happy. Unless of course you meant marriage topic, which clearly you didn't because that would be anal.

Just to clarify, you want a topic devoted to happy loving married relationships with no problems? Do you think that there would be a huge amount of traffic? Generally posters on forums of whatever type don't post "oh, I am blissfully happy and have no problems. Let me list all the ways in which I have no problems...". And if for some bizarre reason they do then no one reads them or responds.

(disclaimer: I do think MN has too many topics. But it's not my site and I'm not about to volunteer to put in vast numbers of hours to reorganise it, so they can structure ut however they want)

Well, I would have assumed that as there is a relationship topic, and marriage is, y'know, a relationship, that marriage would come under the relationship heading.

Also, I am somewhat offended that, as I am not married, my relationship is 'a transitory encounter whereas a partnerhsip or a marriage implies an intention of committment' [sic]. First off, I get enough of that shit from DP's family, but also, I am in a long term, committed relationship. But I oughtn't get annoyed that my unmarried relationship is seen as somehow lacking or less serious. Fuck it. I'd rather have fun. Lets talk about car frottage, badger loving, panda fellatio, koala caressing etc. That seems way more fun. And interesting .

What a load of patronising self important Crap

what the hell is 'car frottage'? it sounds like another one of those links I shouldn't click on...

I really should MN on a friday night - would really make up for not being able to drink! (Feel drunk just reading that...!)

Caar frottage? Is this like the lady who fell in love with the Statue of Liberty? (Calls her "Libby" apparently)

No last night wasn't good. the site kept going offline. Very frustrating.

On the whole, the purpose of a new topic is to move all the minority interest stuff out of the way. A good reason to create a new topic is where a minority of users are starting lots of threads on a particular subject in one or more of the existing topics - which is spoiling the enjoyment of the majority of users of those topics. So eg if there was no sports topic and people who wanted to post about the game kept starting loads of threads about it in Chat, there might be a case for creating a Sports topic to free up Chat.

If sleep issues didn't have their own topic, sleep deprived people would be starting threads about sleep all over the board, which wouldnt be very helpful to the sleep deprived people, and anyone who couldn't really care less about sleep issues (most people) would constantly encounter threads about sleep in Chat, Development, Relationships, etc.

I don't know that I'd even recognise a marriage thread if I saw one tbh OP. I'd probably mistake it for a relationship thread, seeing as there's no practical difference that I can think of. I dont think enough people will share your bizarre polarised viewpoint.

' mariage is always written as marraige whereas relationship seems to be written as a relationship.

So how do you spell it again? Out of the whole thread, this surreal, almost sentence is the only thing I'm going to remember.

A thread is an individual post - you've just started a thread - "AIBU to think that MN is unreasonable..."

A topic is a place where threads deemed to be about the same subject are started.

Like the AIBU board is a topic, within which AIBU threads are started.

If it's a marriage 'thread' you want - they have a limit of 1000 posts and anyone can start one. so start one.

If it's a marriage topic you want (even though you keep on saying 'thread') then you ask mnhq to consider adding Marriage to their already ridiculously long list of topics.

It's not anal to point this out - Topic and thread are two totally different things.

If you want a marriage topic - email MN.

Or you could just start threads about marriage on one of the other gazillion bloody topics we already have.