Enlightenment post: MArriage.

Marriage.

This is a disclaimer: the opinions expressed here are not to be taken personally and are merely just that, an opinion. So enjoy this post and feel free to express your opinion if you feel the need to.

When I began this assignment my first thought went directly to the scene from the movie, “The Princess bride”, ““Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.” As human we desire to find that special person to be with and eventually get married. Here are my ideas on what is happening to the institution of marriage in today’s society.

The typical marriage used to be one made up of a man and a women married together. Today the term marriage is used very loosely.  There are many different forms of marriage, common law marriage, open marriages, same sex marriages, and marriage to multiple partners. Another common form of marriage is one that is not marriage but makes a mockery of the very idea of it. This is joked with many times as being said as “why but the cow when you can get the milk for free” attitude. So many couples choose to go this route long before the get married, and that is a big If they get married. This choice of a relationship is seen as a trial time to see if they couples can make it work.

In the past marriages were a religious/ social contract that was usually arranged and had nothing to do with love. Today we are more likely to marry for love and occasionally for social status and money.

I personally feel that marriage is not taken very seriously. In my life experiences marriage is disposable and can easily be replaced for whatever reasons. In my personal life I have seen multiple friends and family go into a marriage with a knowledge that if things don’t work out we can always get divorced and try again another time. My own brother’s new wife’s family did this on his wedding day after he was already married, just before his reception. They were talking to his new wife telling her if this marriage doesn’t work out she can always get divorced. 

A few more problems I feel that marriage face are lack of positive role models, lack of communication, rapid social changes, money, stress, children, in laws, family chores, lack of emotional needs met, substance abuse, and lastly, physical and emotional abuse.

If I were to make a cartoon of marriage today I would have a picture of all description of what marriage is seen as today with the varying descriptions and next to them have a “average” marriage couple nest to them while the rest look down on them as if mocking the m with the word love written above them crumbling and hanging by a thread above there heads.