Two Chicks Walk Into a Walmart....

Question of the day: Again, this is NOT a judgmental question. It is one I often ponder. There is no condemnation, I'm just curious.) With all the fighting for marriage equality, the right for everyone to experience the "joy" of marriage....

Why do people *really* want to get married???

Marriage is a vow, a commitment before man and God that we **swear**, as in: oath, to uphold, even, no ESPECIALLY, through the worst, until death.

Yet divorce rates are through the roof. If we marry for "loooooveeeee" and love is unconditional, and we swear that we will stay, even when we don't want to, and that we put the needs of the other before our own, and we vow to do this until we die, why do so many marriages end? Is it because we don't really marry for love, is the love not unconditional as the vows suggest, or do we not really marry for life?

We got married because we didn't want to be alone.

Why did you get married?

What do people who marry for life do differently to make their marriage last?

I want to hear from y'all! ^_^

(*Disclaimer* Just because we are still married, does not mean we didn't knock on the door of divorce. It does not mean we did not lose the desire to try. It does not mean we did not have plenty of good reasons (according to society) to leave without blame. So don't think I mean this just to other people, it applies to us as well.)

Hey, If You Have All the Answers, I'd Like to Hear Them!

Okay...First things first: NO, this is NOT sarcastic and it is not baiting for an argument. (So, if anyone feels the need to be hostile, take it elsewhere.) I would just like to know...

To those of my family/friends that do not believe the Bible is the supreme authority on how we humans should live, (or are of the keep your beliefs to your self, other people's choices aren't your business, etc. persuasion); basically, if there is no universal, absolute moral truth:

1. How does one determine what is and is not acceptable behavior? (Where does one draw the line?)

2. What is the basis determining said moral/ethical/legal codes?

3. Who should determine such things and how do we apply them without "forcing said beliefs" on others?

I have never not believed, so I have never had to consider any such answer and this election got me wondering how people with different perspectives would have the nation create laws and enforce them.  

 

I ask this because I have been told and seen countless posts telling me to "keep my morals to myself" but that is in fact exactly what our laws are. Moral code of conduct. So, if the Bible is "out" what is our measuring stick?