The 4 Cs

My desire to get married was never about the diamond. Though, like any other aspiring drag queen, I do like my bling...

But perhaps relationships, like diamonds, are all about the 4 Cs. Compatibility, communication, companionship and compromise?

But how do you compromise on something like marriage? When it's something the other one believes in while the other equally vehemently doesn't? Much like the issue of having children: how do you compromise on that? You only have few of them, for a short period of time? 

No, it just doesn't work like that.

And marriage is something too big, precious and rare (much like the diamonds) to compromise on. No-one should be forced into it (Yemen, Afghanistan- are you listening??). If it's not something both parties enter with whole-hearted commitment and joy... then it's not going to provide either person that happy end it's supposed to stand for.

And yet... yet I'm trying to figure out if a compromise with The Man might be achievable.