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#52563 01/12/02 04:59 PM
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of anuptaphobia, please?



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anuptaphilia

You knew I'd say that. I ain' saying what Ænigma had to say about it.


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gametophobia (also gamophobia) - the fear of marriage

http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/phobias.html

{anuptaphilia would be the love of staying single -- a slightly different thing altogether.}

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Here is yet another list of phobias. If anuptaphobia is fear of remaining single, then the antonym would be fear of getting married, gamophobia.

http://www.didyouknow.cd/phobias/phobiasmz.htm


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No, I'm looking for the fear of remaining married ...



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No, I'm looking for the fear of remaining married ...

Ha! I have no idea why this strikes me as being very, very funny, but it does!! Sure does seem there should be such a word, and, if there isn't, we need to invent one!




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Ask SWMBO


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make one up ... hmmmm

Fideliphobia?


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That sounds like a fear of big cuban cigars to me, WOW.


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That sounds like a fear of big cuban cigars to me, WOW.

Come, come, surely that would be monicafidelophobia?

No, what I was looking for was a fear of remaining married. Retrospectively, I shouldn't have asked for the antonym.

Anyway, Bill suggested I ask SWMBO, but she knows that she doesn't need to fear it and therefore she wouldn't need a word for it. After all, it is not an irreversible state. The word she would probably be looking for is one which represents a loathing of the prospect of getting and/or remaining married ...



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