Illicit Encounters is asking for a parliamentary debate concerning the future of marriage. With the rate of divorce creeping up every year, more people who are choosing not to tie the knot and married couples seeking affairs through dating sites, the idea is to introduce renewal dates on marriages.
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The proposal has caused a lot of conflict by a dating site that aims to help unhappily married couples pair off with new partners to find satisfaction once more.
A staggering third of people believe that they actually married the wrong person according to Atomik. 59% of Illicit Encounters users believe the system to be out of date and a third world champion the renewable marriage idea as long as it last between 5 and 8 years.
Illicit Encounters has written an open letter to members of parliament and religious leaders in the hope of taking it forward. The letter suggests that current marriage laws should be reviewed and generate a time limit on a marriage contact’s validity. Illicit Encounters is proposing that this would “spare incompatible couples the expense of lengthy divorce proceedings and the social stigma and emotional trauma consciously uncoupling can cause.”
Spokesperson for the campaign and IllicitEncounters.com Mike Taylor commented; "Marriage should be just like a passport or driver’s license. If individuals are not interested in renewing it, then it expires. If something isn’t working people don’t just live with it. People are more than willing to change their car or washing machine if it has stopped working, why would they stay in a marriage that isn’t working if they weren’t being forced to stay due to financial burdens?”
The controversial dating site believes that this is a sensible solution to solving infidelity within marriage and giving people who are in unhappy marriages a way to escape and find some fulfilment with another person.
These days, as Mike Taylor points out, “Those who can’t afford a divorce just suffer indefinitely.”
Illicit Encounters is asking people who believe in their proposal to write to their MP to show their support.
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It is expected that the campaign will get a great deal of opposition from the Church of England and the Catholic Church who have consistently gone against any previous Illicit Encounters proposals. The site wishes to engage people in a healthy debate on this as it already has a lot of members who are part of these faiths. It’s expected that they will be writing to their church leaders, with first-hand experience of what it is like to be in an unhappy relationship.