"A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. But this is no reason we should get mawked-up and silly about what the relationship is. The relationship, basically, is a postulated relationship. There is no truth in the relationship. It is a postulated relationship.

"And when people stop postulating it, it ceases to exist! And that's what happens to most marriages. People stop mocking up the family unit, and the moment they stop mocking it up, it isn't. You see what happens to marriages?

"It isn't the other way around: It isn't that all men are evil, so therefore, contracts such as marriage dissolve usually in infidelity and go all to pieces. That is not true. The reverse it true: that when you have a purely postulated relationship which has no real existence in fact, you have to continue to create it. And a family unit which doesn't continue to create itself as a family will cease to exist as a family. That's about all you need to know about it."

— L. Ron Hubbard
State of Man Congress

 
 

From the lecture "Marriage"

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