Marriage

I cant say that I think that marriage is sacred. I dont think marriage is changing, I think that people are changing. Part of getting married is sacrifice. People are more selfish now then ever before. Making the necessary sacrifices to make marriage work is getting harder and harder because people are told me first more and more often. Infidelity is so much more common. It has gone on forever but it just seems that its occuring so much more frequently. Just my thoughts but it is people's selfishness not the act of marriage itself. When marriage was more sacred people dated way less for less time and still made it work for decades. Now a marriage is lucky to make it over 2 years. How is this possible. People get to know each other so much more before they make the commitment yet they still get divorced. I have all four of my grandparents and they have all celebrated 50 year anniversarys. Very unlikely that I will be seeing much more of that in the future if things stay the same way.

Of course its not. Marriage has not had the same meaning for many years now as it did say 100 years ago. There was a time when people would stick it out and make a marriage work any way they could. Even if it meant being unhappy in that marriage. Now when people marry, they go in thinking they have a 50 50 chance of making it work. Even 40-45 years ago when I was a teen, few of my friends had both parents. Even back them marriage as an institution was failing and now it is only getting worse. Women want careers, want their freedom and many don't even want to have kids. So no, marriage is not any where near as special as it used to be.