Marriage
Why do people get married? Indeed they don’t have to, or do they? I realize that our culture(especially religion) has had much to do with the necessity of marriage, and that is fine. I know people have gotten married because it was “the right thing to do”. I know people have gotten married for tax breaks. I know people who have gotten pregnant and then said “we have to get married now.”
I am going to marry again. I know this. I want this. My divorce never inflicted damage on my view of marriage, but it did however cause me to step back and really consider why people do.
In a couple weeks I will be performing a wedding ceremony. These people are in love, they are committed to each other and their futures with each other, they have lived together for some time already. So, why get married? Because they want to.
What better reason?
If you believe that marriage is a powerful, meaningful way of expressing to the one you love that you are their’s for life, then I would encourage you to get married! Do it because you want to! Do it because of love, and not moral obligation. If you believe strongly in marriage, then you have to marry the one you love, don’t you? Doesn’t love cause you to express it in the most meaningful, powerful, wonderful ways imaginable? Then if you love then you must.
And what better reason is there…?
Exactly!!!!
Let’s turn the question around - why NOT get married? My friend and I were talking about this just yesterday. If people are truly in love and committed to each other, what would be their reasoning for not marrying? I think Corey posted on baptism using the analogy of marriage - marriage is to love as baptism is to salvation… anyway, just my two cents worth. Not worth much, I know.
I got married becasue my wife so smokin’ ….
Excuse me. Got carried away.
I got married because marriage is more than “like,” more than “love,” and more than “engaged.” Marriage is taking a risk on the rest of your life for a person that you love.
Marriage is love.
Good stuff here.
I don’t know that I have anything meaningful to add, but I wanted to comment because the topic presentation was so good. Great comments by all. I’ve never heard the baptism analogy before, but I love it!…wait, now do I have to marry it?