Writer's Block: Marital license
Do you think a marriage license should have a renewal or expiration date, just like a driver's license?
Cool idea. Maybe we should get rid of it before it spoils. Kinda like milk. (lol)
Just teasing! Marriage is for life (unless there's abuse involved and other unacceptable situations. No one should be forced to live in a nightmare), but I do think living together for a good 2 years before marriage would be helpful in reducing the risk of the total obliveration of rose-colored spectacles.
When the vows say for better or worse... they really mean it! Too many people go into marriage thinking love is all you need and will get you through anything, that their partners are perfect and can read minds, and that they'll live happily ever after in a castle in the sky. Maybe in Utopia. Anyone know how to get there? Can someone give me directions, or maybe draw me a map?
Marriage is WORK. It takes time, the patience of a saint, the ablility to forgive and the ability to persevere and constant reminders as to why you married the person in the first place! (lol) It's also a gift and needs nurturted and treated tenderly, compassionately and with unerring devotion. I don't remember who said it, but they said, "When you have a relationship where two people never stop paying attention to each other, you have life at its finest."