With so many marriages ending in "I don't want to anymore", one wonders whether when women talk about being in long term committed relationships they are making an observation on how long the relationship has, as a matter of fact, lasted so far, or whether they set out with the intention of ensuring things got to that point.  It's not that the men are off the hook in this state of affairs.  After all, if men can't commit or won't commit or both at the same time (it makes little difference; the result is always the same), it is triumph even for women to achieve a long term committed relationship, something more traditionally guaranteed by prisons and mental hospitals.  Impolite are inmates--those who rate a life sentence--who talk amongst themselves about having "got the bitch".  What must their women make of them?  Some bargains are not worth having. The smart money has always been on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and proto and post anthropologists everyw...