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What is marriage? I thought that one of the primary concepts behind it is that it's a "commitment". (If it's not that, what is it?) However, if you change that
by Karellen 12y ago
What is marriage? I thought that one of the primary concepts behind it is that it's a "commitment". (If it's not that, what is it?)
However, if you change that to "we'll keep doing this until we don't feel like doing it", that's not really much of a commitment anymore, is it? After all, doing something you enjoy doing until you don't feel like doing it anymore, is pretty much what you do anyway, by default.
What is marriage, really, except a promise to try and keep going and work things through, even when you don't want to anymore?
- seunosewa 12y agoHow about "until our kids grow up and start their own lives?"
- bluehex 12y agoIt seems almost pathological to commit to continuing to do something even when you don't want to do it anymore. And there's no way to predict how you will feel in that regard a couple years later. What is the point of making a promise like that? I'm not arguing for the parent's more lax stance on the commitment of marriage; I'm just saying I don't see why people choose to marry to begin with.