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Japanese couples are making sure their marriages are perfect by writing specific clauses into their wedding contracts.

MDN reporters suggest that marriage contracts are just that; binding agreements which must be honoured. It's not clear if they have any legal significance, but MDN argues that these documents could be used to resolve marital spats. For example:

One couple who put this system into practise have a rather unique way of securing their future:

The loan amounts to 40 million yen - around 204,000 GBP or 370,000 USD. The husband is said to be "nervous"...

Clever..

Nervous, eh? Not even 40k can ensure he keeps to himself?

What. The. Hell.

What happens if the husband goes on a massive diet? Wait, I don't need to say anything after what. the. hell.

i don't want to be ethnically insensitive, but what in the hell are japanese people eating that is making them fat

eels... lots and lots of eels.... rectally

must you remind us of that horrible, horrible video?

That is just freakin ridiculous.

niiiice.

How about "How The Hell"? How the hell do you enforce something like that? Daily weigh-ins?

I wonder if the husband also has to pay the roughly $2000 that a private detective is going to cost, proving his infidelity or lack thereof.

Curi.

Ah, romance.

This kind of shit makes a mockery of love. I would never agree to marry anyone that wanted to put conditions on our marriage.

You agreed to wear nothing but edible panties around the house already, stop trying to weasel out of it.

I agreee with unravled. Love doesn't require this kind of shit.

mine will say "no fatties"

You're a prize, I bet.

I think this kind of thing is exactly what needs to be done. Put the expectations that you have for your partner up front and in writing. That way everybody knows what they're getting into, and what to expect.
How much would that suck if you went into a marriage thinking "we'll always be good looking" and your partner went into it thinking "great, now I can stop eating right and excercising."

How many of those 50% of marriages that end in divorce did so because the people didn't know what the other was expecting of them for the future? Damned near all of the divorcees that *I* know...

The sad fact is that Love is rarely enough. The books are filled with couples who loved each other dearly, but still couldn't keep it together.

American-style fast food.

will they put "gagging" into the contract also???

Aye. As a married man myself, I can tell you quite confidently that love is just a prerequisite, along with patience, diplomacy, respect, stubborn-ness (I'm not giving up on this marriage, damnit), and a sense of humor, along with a million other crucial things. Like money.

And I completely agree that it requires all those things. What it doesn't require, for me, is a contract.

Look. Everywhere in the world divorce rates are climbing. Something isn't working. Marriage is outdated and/or broken. Maybe a contractual relationship is something modern people can understand better than the "TEH invisible boogeyman in TEH sky gon' dun smite you if you fuck up." If this fixes marriage for some people, so be it.