Speaking about status – the status that most women are after, when it comes to relationships. They want the “Mrs” tag or even the status just so they get half the guy’s assets. Security, financial security, that’s what most women call it.
And I thought we lived in a world where the number of feminists is on the rise. How then are we to argue feminism when the majority of females are out to achieve financial security disguised by L.O.V.E. each time they sign away their singlehood for the “happily ever after”. So much for financial independence.
Perhaps then the long standing argument of how Love is not bread and cannot be eaten, comes into place. Then this certainly begs the argument of integrity in the marriage vows taken, “… I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health…, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.”
Marriage has been turned into a business transaction of sorts. Note how I use the words “has been turned into” instead of “has become”. Yet, if we look to the origins of what a marriage truly is, it is really a union of two minds or souls. It is neither a civil nor legal contract, but a spiritual one.
One might question then that it really doesn’t matter whether a ceremony is held. And yes, that would be true. Marriage is a state of mind (read : spiritual), where two people are joined, committed and devoted to that unison. Just like status, where isn’t it more important, the status a woman holds in her partner’s heart, than the immaterial status of material stuff?
And I wonder, how many will read this and agree and how many will read this, agree and live by it? The truth. That’s what we ought to live by, no?
