I was flipping channels today and ended up at the beginning of Dr. Phil. The first thing he did was he had a group of women in the audience stand and asked them if they would divorce their husband if he got them into X amount of debt, and to sit if they would. As he kept listing higher and higher numbers, more and more women sat down. This fact deeply disturbed me. How could any woman that loves her husband choose money over him, and then reveal that to the world with no shame? Yes, the show was about a couple who was over $600,000 in debt. The wife was blaming her husband, and wanting to divorce him because she didn't want to deal with it anymore, and she would be getting an inheritance when her parents died and she didn't want him to touch it.
What has happened to the meaning of marriage? With the debate of gay marriage, it is something too sacred that it must be kept between a man and a woman, and yet it's something that people throw in the towel when it gets hard? Now I'm not saying that I agree with gay marriage, that's not what this blog is about. What happened to the vow "For better, for worse?" Yes, to one couple worse may be very different that another couple's worse, but there are no guidelines when it comes to what exactly "worse" entails. It breaks my heart to see something so sacred and so binding be something that people can throw away if it doesn't suit them at that moment. What really is money worth? Is it really the thing that determines our lives? Does money or love determine our happiness? And is true marriage something determined by the state or determined by God? Is it the marriage license or the vow before God that truly means you're married? When I get married, divorce will not be an option. I will stay with him through good or bad, because I made that vow. I wonder what the world would be like if everyone truly thought of marriage like that?
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