Marriage is the bond between two people of the opposite sex that have went in front of a minister and exchanged vows. Marriage is different for every one, and I have been influenced a great deal by my parents. My parents have been married for the past 26 years and they will probably stay that way the rest of their lives. However marriage is not what it once was, today you have people getting into a marriage for other reasons than love and knowing that they can get out of the marriage if they feel any anxiety or conflicts of interest. Marriage is a special bond that has been destabilized over the years.
Twenty years ago values and beliefs about marriage were very different. People did not think about the easy way out, divorce. My mother and father have been married for the past twenty-six years and the times have not been easy for either one of them, however, they were raised in a way that divorce was not an option. Both my mother’s parents and my father’s parents have or had been married to the same person their whole lives. Parents believe that marriage is the friendship and closeness which two people share for the rest of their lives. I am a product of my parents and I have much of the same values and beliefs that they have.
I was engaged to a girl for a year and a half before I came to a realization that she was not the one that I wanted to settle down with for the rest of my life. I think marriage is a life long companionship. I am glad that I did not get married to that girl because today I would have been divorced. I too have the belief that the person that you wed is to be a friend for life, a person that you are the closest to, and can share your worse fears with.
The Essay on A Way of Life for Searching People
The book Practicing Our Faith: a Way of Life for a Searching People is about addressing the need for sharing the fundamental needs of man to establish faithful and honorable Christian way of life. It explores twelve central Christian practices contributed together by thirteen individuals coming from diverse denominational and ethnic backgrounds. Specifically this book provides significance to ...
There are people that use marriage to get what they what. I have know people who were married so the other person would be happy even though they themselves did not want to get married. Then there are others who believe that you cannot have sex until you are married. So they rush the marriage so that they can experience intimate relations with their partners.
This is a classic formula of a marriage that is not going to work out and the couple end up getting a divorce. In my experiences, I have seen the result of rushing to have the intimate time occur with people that classify themselves as Christians. I am not saying that it’s not my belief to wait for marriage to have sex, however, I feel that one should never rush into marriage for the simple desire to have relations with the other. Marriage is a bond that that should be taken seriously and to be savored for the one you plan to spend the rest of your life with. In my experience, I think it is important to experience other people and see the world before you settle down.
The people that have had their own experiences and found the person that is the one for marriage will still have a life with a few pot holes in the road, however, there will always be some-one in the passenger’s seat who can help them though the hard times.
