Marriage and Divorce Should Be Taken Seriously
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In a culture where over 50% of all marriages will end in divorce, I am merely a statistic that is so very common that nobody bats an eyelash over my pain and emotional trauma that resulted from my own divorce. When I was in college, my own parents divorced and I took it very hard. I never saw divorce as something in which I would willingly participate, but in Florida there is no recourse. If one spouse wants a divorce, it is simply granted without fault.
Yikes.
So, it makes me all the more angry to see how many public figures bandy about marriage and divorce as though they were as meaningful as a the commitment you have to make to a temporary tattoo. The entertainment industry is fraught with such examples. One of the latest is Eddie Murphy and his two-week marriage to Tracey Edmonds. She is, of course, the woman that Murphy told the world fixed everything and made his life all better after his previous divorce – the one where he left the mother of his multiple children.
What a frightening world we live in when people are not able to commit to family and relationships. Marriage is WORK, hard work. Anyone who tells you different has either never actually been married or is lying through their chemically bleached teeth. Loving, respectful, supportive relationships take nurturing and a willingness to change and learn continuously. Sacrifice is a given.
And so, that is my rant. People ask me why I may choose to not marry again in the future. Just look around and see all of the cavalier attitudes toward marriage and then tell me why I should risk my current contentment for all of that.
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