It's Not Feminism, but the Failure to Engage with It, That Has Undermined Marriage ; EDITORIAL & OPINION

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Bloody hell! If there's one thing we marriage-supporting members of the commenting classes have to be grateful for today, it's that the Archbishop of Canterbury didn't decide to join the other side. Even batting on Team Matrimony, let's face it, he's a liability, because he makes marriage sound so unbearably dreary. I don't want "prosaic heroism" or "moral geography". I want intimacy, jokes, shared history, enough children for a desultory game of rounders to be an eternal possibility, never, ever, having to put out the rubbish, and sex with a man who can't wince at my stretch marks because they're All His Fault.

Certainly, you can have all that and not be married, and …