Just For Christmas – Crea Reitan

I clarify. Brent nods. “Sure.” “What’s in them? Enfield and Xavi said they removed the part about kids.” I laugh. “There are a lot of things, some of which are defunct and out of date. The kids’ thing specifically states that the first kid should be had by the third year of marriage. Sometimes there’s naming nomenclature or tradition passed down, as was the case with my father. Sometimes surnames don’t follow the male but the female, depending on the family.

There can be a minimum number of children to be had.” “Wow,” he says. “Yep. Then there are other things, such as one of them spending the thirty days before their wedding at the other person’s house, either with or without the family. Not necessarily their family house, like this, but part of their property.

This is the time they spend getting to know each other personally. There are usually some lines about where they’ll live, how often they visit patriarchal members of the family, how the kids will be schooled, and where they’ll spend holidays.” “That sounds incredibly restrictive,” Brent says, frowning. “It is, and it’s not. These things are negotiated beforehand so everyone’s best interests, wants, and needs are accounted for. Enfield’s situation isn’t actually very typical. I bet if we asked Xavi, he had a big part in designing the parameters of the contract from his side.

His family took into account everything that was negotiable and those that weren’t—such as the gender of his partner. Enfield didn’t want any part of it, so his parents did what they thought he’d like best or defaulted to what Xavi asked for.” “So all these decisions are things you’ve talked about prior to the contract.” “Yep. In reality, it’s kind of like speed dating, right? All the biggest, most important things are laid out right up front. Before you meet. This isn’t actually a hardship. You’re going into a situation knowing more about your future spouse than some partners do for years into their relationship.”

“Then why have the contract?” “Well, I think in part for tradition. It’s something we’ve practiced for generations. It has a proven track record. There are very few divorces in my family. I can probably count them on one hand. The contracts serve the purpose of aligning compatibility, don’t they? Another reason is partially in response to the rights to shares in the family business. Trusts and estates and whatever. You can hand over a whole lot of shit to a person once they turn eighteen, and there’s a big probability that they’ll waste it or lose it by the time they’re thirty.

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