That would be mighty funny and also tragic if it were a literal interpretation of marriage! We'd have an awful lot more married folks out there than we do now. And an awful lot more with whole long lists of husbands and wives. Imagine seeing an old flame at the mall when you were there with your family. "Oh yeah, that was my sixth husband. We were married after a few too many cocktails one night. Hey, Six!"

I thought it was the intercourse that consummated, or officially began, a Christian marriage. And Psycho4Bud's right. It's seven years of living together that consitutes a common-law arrangement and officially opens the season for future palimony lawsuits.