Thursday, July 28, 2011

Divorce

I was watching reruns of Sex and the City (insert laugh here) and Charlotte's soon to be ex-mother-in-law was talking to her about marriage and divorce. I tried and failed to find the exact quote. It went something like this:
I come from a generation where marriage actually meant something. When you said the vows 'til death do us part' you actually meant it. Now it's 'til times get hard.
As much as I love Charlotte, I happen to agree with the old shrew. Marriage should not be something that can be so easily thrown away. Now I know there are certain things that merit divorce, abuse and infidelity being the main 2, but the number one reason listed on divorce papers is 'irreconcilable differences'. I think divorce has gotten so common that people enter their marriage with the thought "if it doesn't work out we can always get divorced". If you enter into it with doubt then that doubt is gonna pop into your head every time a problem comes about.
I guess my question is, do you really want to look back on your life and say
'I altered the life of every member of my family because times got hard and I just felt like giving up'?

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