DD and Daily Sketch want me to post this. It's actually Sketch's post, but they want me to post my comment there as my own post. So here goes... my thoughts on marriage and divorce, a topic I have zero experience with other than my observations of my parents' and grandparents' very happy marriages of over 25 years.
I'm flattered, guys! And Sketch, I give credit to you for such an interesting topic!
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My grandfather sat me down a while back and told me something Ill never forget. He said, "Son, there are two kinds of people in this world. It sounds like you married a taker, and you are a giver. This time, look for a giver."
One needs to know my grandfather to understand the full weight of what he had just said.
And this wouldnt be complete without a little Lewis: If love is the whole thing, then the promise can add nothing; and if the promise can add nothing, then it should not be made... Being 'in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love is the explosion that started it.
Very well put, Virginia Belle!
I liked your passion in your comment. I wrote an article on baggage reclaim which was inspired by Sketch's post - The You Don't Own Me/Independent Woman Fund. I think that peoples value's have changed from when our grandparents were first getting married. People's expectations are so out of whack and we don't seem to know the meaning of working at things. If it appears to be broke, we end it and move on. However, I think that the reason why marriages end ultimately is because the foundations of the relationship were dodgy anyway. If we make better relationships on the correct foundations, we make better marriages.
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