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    I was watching the news and apparently the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about IKEA causing problems between couples.http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-your...kea-1429724227. more disturbing than previous divorce trend was the idea that couples are breaking up over furniture design what does this say about our country in our cs to the soul in I believe that this speaks to the shallow culture we have become valuing material choices over things like trust children love and morals which have nothing to do with the furniture at all. It also says just how far as a culture we have strayed from God. I don't think at the center of a loving marriage is furniture. I didn't know where else to put this but there are just no words for how sad this is.
    A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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    I guess they'll just settle for one nightstands.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Catholicity View Post
      more disturbing than previous divorce trend was the idea that couples are breaking up over furniture design what does this say about our country in our cs to the soul in
      Liberal progressives (but I repeat myself) are screwed and are killing the nation.
      Last edited by Paprika; 04-24-2015, 06:33 AM.

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        This is a real shame.
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          Originally posted by Manwë Súlimo View Post
          I guess they'll just settle for one nightstands.

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            My husband and I can't wallpaper together.

            It is VERY bad for our marriage. And we've been together for 42 years.

            Furniture shopping, not so much. There is so much self-love these days, that people just can't seem to realize that marriage is ALL about putting the other person first.

            If furniture purchases is an issue that ends a marriage, then it wasn't much of a marriage to begin with.


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              It's just furniture. I don't really see the big deal. Ya sit on it.
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                We buy furniture as we need to, and usually we're cheap about it. Actually, we have higher desire to have nice vehicles than house--always on the move it seems.
                No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?

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                • #9
                  Why would people break up over overpriced furniture?
                  "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                  GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                    Originally posted by Catholicity View Post
                    I was watching the news and apparently the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about IKEA causing problems between couples.http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-your...kea-1429724227. more disturbing than previous divorce trend was the idea that couples are breaking up over furniture design what does this say about our country in our cs to the soul in I believe that this speaks to the shallow culture we have become valuing material choices over things like trust children love and morals which have nothing to do with the furniture at all. It also says just how far as a culture we have strayed from God. I don't think at the center of a loving marriage is furniture. I didn't know where else to put this but there are just no words for how sad this is.
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                      Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
                      It's just furniture. I don't really see the big deal. Ya sit on it.
                      This explains why your wife buys so many chests of drawers....
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                        My husband and I can't wallpaper together.

                        It is VERY bad for our marriage. And we've been together for 42 years.

                        Furniture shopping, not so much. There is so much self-love these days, that people just can't seem to realize that marriage is ALL about putting the other person first.

                        If furniture purchases is an issue that ends a marriage, then it wasn't much of a marriage to begin with.

                        Wallpapering isn't good for anyone...
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