The Business of Marriage
Marriage is harder to attain than a university degree and such a difficult business to maintain that a lot of them go bankrupt. People say "marriage is nothing more then a piece of paper." Much like a degree is "only a piece of paper", and like a degree people think of you differently when you have it and you rise higher on the social ladder with it. I think partly because once you are married people have a sense of awe because somewhere in all of us we know being married is a mammoth commitment to undertake a job and lifestyle that doesn’t suit most humans.
The business of marriage involves the second biggest investment of your life; having kids is the biggest because that is a binding unbreakable contract that no matter how hard you try is impossible to break although you can abuse, neglect and ignore it but you can never break it. Marriage involves all of your assets, and money is the least important one in the transaction. The most important assets you are required to invest, if you have any chance of being prosperous, are, at the least, your heart, soul and mind, with a deep commitment to mutual honesty and respect within the agreement.
The necessity for marriage has changed a lot over human history. Whereas once it was about procreation and population control, with family and social support, now the focus has become a commitment to love one another for the rest of your lives, come what may. The proof of this is in the large number of people that marry and are over the age of procreation.
Incidentally, might I add that, now that child bearing and upbringing has been taken out of the equation as a reason to marry, why is it illegal for homosexual people to get married? This outdated convention is ridiculous to continue; and to deny anyone the opportunity of living in a state of marriage is moronic and barbaric. Anyone who thinks differently needs to remember or learn that people are all people, and we all love and cry and hurt and die, and as such we are all potentially capable of loving and committing to one person for the rest of our lives.
Nowadays, this is really what being married is all about.
The business of marriage involves the second biggest investment of your life; having kids is the biggest because that is a binding unbreakable contract that no matter how hard you try is impossible to break although you can abuse, neglect and ignore it but you can never break it. Marriage involves all of your assets, and money is the least important one in the transaction. The most important assets you are required to invest, if you have any chance of being prosperous, are, at the least, your heart, soul and mind, with a deep commitment to mutual honesty and respect within the agreement.
The necessity for marriage has changed a lot over human history. Whereas once it was about procreation and population control, with family and social support, now the focus has become a commitment to love one another for the rest of your lives, come what may. The proof of this is in the large number of people that marry and are over the age of procreation.
Incidentally, might I add that, now that child bearing and upbringing has been taken out of the equation as a reason to marry, why is it illegal for homosexual people to get married? This outdated convention is ridiculous to continue; and to deny anyone the opportunity of living in a state of marriage is moronic and barbaric. Anyone who thinks differently needs to remember or learn that people are all people, and we all love and cry and hurt and die, and as such we are all potentially capable of loving and committing to one person for the rest of our lives.
Nowadays, this is really what being married is all about.