Casa De Morrill

Weddings and marriages lately have been a hot topic around all of us. Most likely because we all know at least one person if not multiple people getting married this summer. As usual, it’s gotten me thinking about marriage in our society nowadays. Divorces have risen to a frightening number. Children are growing up with only one parent or are being torn between two people that apparently can’t live together. Our society is becoming one where marriage is something for two adults to do if they have nothing better to do with their lives. Then, if they decide they want out, they file papers and a couple weeks later, it’s as if they were never married.

I don’t know about everyone else, but marriage means a lot to me. I grew up in certainly a less than perfect household. There were even times that I sat down and wondered if my parents ever divorced, which one I’d go to live with. But, they got through those times and they’re still married, quite happily actually now. They’ve been married 35 years now. That’s impressive to today’s standards. It’s certainly not because they grew up in households, though, where divorce wasn’t an option. My father’s father re-married 4 or 5 times. I admire them for sticking it out through the hard times and appreciating the easier times in their marriage.

Marriage to me is an understanding between two people. It is an agreement that states that you love that person enough to be with them for the rest of each of their lives. It doesn’t matter what little things they do to tick you off or anything. What matters most is the love you have for that person. I think that a lot of people nowadays don’t even bother wondering if they love each other or not. Marriage is just another thing to do on a Saturday afternoon.

So, here’s a question to anybody that’s reading this and thinking about getting married. Do you love your partner so much that you will live with them and love them through sickness and health? wealth and poverty? good and bad? Because if not, please don’t get married. You’ll only be lying to yourself and to whatever deity you believe in.