Marriage today is different than how it was a long time ago.
Marriage now is about love and making the lifelong commitment of being with who
you love. Love was not part of marriage before , before it was more like what
your future spouse had to offer the family and was more of a contract than
love. That is still going on today but in different parts of the country like
for example when parents make arranged marriages. Arranged marriages are bad
because both husband and wife are unhappy. That is not the way to go , marriage
should be about who you love the most and you can be until death do you part.
My
grandma tells me that her father’s friend wanted to marry my grandma and his
son so that my grandpa could be free from poverty and he could become rich by
marrying his daughter into a wealthy family. My great grandpa refused because
he knew that no amount of money could be worth his daughter’s unhappiness. My
great grandpa knew that he needed the money but he wasn’t going to “sell” his
daughter’s hand in marriage. My grandma is happily married with my grandpa and
this year they will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
I can’t
believe how some people are willing to sell their daughter’s hand in marriage
for materialistic things. No father should sell his daughter into a life of misery
a life where she will hate every single day of it and hate her father even more
for giving her away in order to take them out of poverty. Financial instability
should not be a cause for this. I believe that this practice should be long
gone but it still happens in many countries.
I see
marriage as the lifelong commitment between two people who truly love each
other and are willing to spend every last moment with each other until they
die. I believe this because my great grandma and grandpa were happily married
for 70 years. I saw the way my great grandpa looked at my great grandma, the
look as if he had fallen in love with her all over again. I would always think
to myself that I wanted someone to look at me that way one day. They were the
definition of true love they were always together and even though they had
their fights they would always end up together again as if nothing ever happened.
I
believe that there shouldn’t be a temporary marriage because if there were one
it would reduce the rate of actual marriages. It probably would reduce the
divorce rates but it would make for a contract instead of a bond between two
people who loved each other which would throw off the common marriage and make
for a business. I don’t think this should go in effect whatsoeve
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