I once read a comment on a ‘50s photo of a navy man in uniform embracing his young wife. It said “Those were the good old days, when men were brave, women were modest, and romance was alive.”
My parents-in-law were married 74 years when she passed away. She was on oxygen and very frail, but a week before she died, I observed her giving my Dad-in-law a flirtatious little wink. They had eloped when she was only 17 years old and they had nothing, but they were in love until the day she died.
You are right about marriage being cheapened by what the left likes to call women’s liberation. It didn’t liberate women, it just made them selfish.
I’m glad that when my husband and I were married in 1961 that we also had nothing, but we had nothing together.
The parents-in-law story is beautiful
So many wish they had that.
Beautiful post. Thank you!
The “I want it now” mentallity really accelerated with the USA economy through the decades. That and the availability of ‘credit’ has turned the general population into materialistic addicts. ‘Stuff’ = happiness. It’s an illusion most of the time.
The financial advisor Dave Ramsey has built a huge business on this basic problem: “You bought that? Oh, your income isn’t high enough. You shouldn’t have bought that. You need to sell it.”
The materialism issue is only made worse by allowing fantasyland a foothold in our thinking. Hollywood has glorified witchcraft. Harry Potter, even Field of Dreams (a man hearing voices, telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball field? Men in baseball uniforms walking out of a cornfield to play a baseball game? I don’t care how well the story is written and acted; it’s absurd makebelieve). Of course writing makebelieve has made people wealthy for centuries. That’s too bad; but that’s what people want, so it sells.
Sports have become waaaay overrated. The “we gotta help Jimmy or Susie excel in order to get that college athletic scholarship”, attitude has done more harm than good.
The love, care, and teamwork of traditional marriage is God ordained. It’s success is proven over and over again, by those that hold it as sacred, and resist the temptation to corrupt it.
Rant off, for now. :)