What will this Product do for/to Relationships?

Jesus will be here momentarily, Barack Obama showed up just the other day...


RH

heh...I guess I didn't phrase that very well.

What I meant was if I was a man I don't think it would be an impulse buy.

Meaning, if I was like most men, and confident of his wifes fidelity, they could see the most attractive display of DNA test kits, with their favorite music playing in the background, and there would be no impulse to purchase it.

A man would have to already doubt his wife to buy something like that, and seeing that in a store wouldn't be an impulse (to me if I were a man) but rather discovering a product that would answer a question I'd been dwelling on for quite some time.

To me, an impulse purchase is one where I'd never thought of owning one, had no reason to get it, but did just because of superficial apperances.

It also implies to me that there will be regret over the purchase. I don't see myself as a man buying a DNA kit, and later saying "Hey, why did I buy this? I don't need it."

[quote="hawkeye10"]
My concern is that guys who think that they are in a stable relationship will test "just to be sure" now that it is easy and relatively cheap to do so.[/quote]

Part of me can understand how men feel, never really being sure, if they are the father of their child.
There are studies that suggest, that paternal grandparents are less close to their grandchild, because they also cannot be sure that the child carries their genes.

However, the other side of me says: if I ever found out that my partner (from a stable relationship) has taken a test behind my back, that would be the end of our relationship.
There are just certain things where trust is in order!
If you don't trust me, just say so.
You can have your test if you want (unfortunately that would also be the end of our relationship, so there is no winning for the man in my life who doubts me!)

you've hit the nail on the head, as usual Bohne.

what's this "Just to make sure" business?

Either you trust me, or you don't. If you have to make sure, then you don't. Ergo, the relationship is already in trouble and has nothing to do with purchasing a kit.

Since the dawn of man, women, regardless of who the father is, always knows the child is their's. That's why men decided to own women, so they can claim the womens issue as their own.

Hence the problem. The guy is doomed if they do and doomed if they don't... It's another situation where men are expected to just suck it up and move on.

So there is no point in the guy verifying his doubts? If doubt arrises he should just walk away right there and be done with it?

I didn't say that.
I said it had nothing to do with purchasing the kit.

This thread is about how the availability of this test would effect a relationship.

By all means, buy the test and make sure it you have doubts as to the paternity.

But don't blame the fact the test is available on the market for the fact your marriage was already in trouble if you question your partners fidelity, whether true or not.

Exactly, Chai and Bohne. If you're doubting the paternity, there's something really wrong with your relationship. There would be no doubt in a healthy relationship. The question wouldn't even arise.

I'm always interested in the pragmatic aspects of such things, never mind the philosophical aspects . . .

Say, Honey, let me run this cotton swab inside your mouth . . .

You gotta screw loose, somewhere? Get the Hell away from me with that thing . . .

Come on, Sugar Pie, this makes me real hot . . .

Like i told ya last night, your idea of sex and mine are no longer the same . . . it seems to me you're just pokin' fun at me . . . goddamnit, get away from me with that thing . . .

Jesus, Baby, i just want to run this around your mouth for a second, why are you makin' a Federal project outta this . . .

What's this really all about, Mr. Wham Bam Snore?

OK, OK, I KNOW YOU'RE F*CKIN' EVERTHING IN TOWN OVER THE AGE OF 12 WITH A DICK AND I INTEND TO PROVE IT ! ! !


. . . i mean really, this would work as a loss leader, and at $140 a whack, that it ain't . . .