Posted on 07/21/2005 6:12:35 PM PDT by sassbox
In some weddings, "'til death do us part" is going the way of "to honor and obey" — that is, out the window.
Vows like "For as long as we continue to love each other," "For as long as our love shall last" and "Until our time together is over" are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow — a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Yeah this is another wonderful product of the I don't know how to make a commitment and follow through generation.
Society is ill... I am not sure what will turn it. But I like you do not like the looks our sounds of those type of vows.
Let's see, your soon to be ex-wife decides she wants to !@#$ with you so she goes and gets a drive-thru protection order so the state police show up to pick up your guns and then she accuses you of being a child molester. What is the upside of getting married?
I'm staying married till my wife offs me.
"I just don't understand why someone would marry a person he or she feels so ambivalent about. A sad commentary on the state of marriage these days."
Bah. People have always married for reasons other than love.
There's nothing new under the sun.
After 26 years not much. She left and move on up more money and a larger more expensive house.
Soon we may be to, "I do solemnly swear to give you half my assets when you want them."
that's the real stupid part, "vows", sacrement, why bother is all if you're not in it "for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health"? Marriage runs in cycles and these people who take these kind of "vows" run when the going gets stuff. Extemely sad when children are involved, what does it tell them about commitment to something very important? Again, if these are your "vows", why get married at all and just live together?
42 years I have been married . They will separate us when one of us goes in a box.
"For as long as the fat lady sings?"
"For as long as the knob remains polished?"
"Till I can do better?"
Honestly, if I were invited to a wedding with such vows as the article, I'd walk out with instructions for the happy couple never to contact me again.
None for a man.
What sort of sap would participate is a sham with this as the vow? You might might say, "Until our time together is over or dinner whichever comes first."
Is that you, Phil Hartman?
When my great grandparents got married they barely knew each other. Mr grandmother said she only later realized that she loved my grandfather. They were married for nearly 70 years.
Silly me, if I would've just changed a phrase at my wedding I'd be a free man. Marriage is just a joke or a fad, I guess.
In my case it was "Until the credit cards get maxed out"
My wife and I privately renewed our vows recently: "the only way you're getting out of this is in a box."
There were no witnesses for obvious reasons ;o)
I've been married for 20 years and now when the going is tuff with some illness, my husband cuts and runs for the time when he was young, in college, and shouldn't have gotten married so young. I have been a full-time stay at home mom for 18 years and so much for his "vows", he's leaving us penniless,while he's living much better off, with a new car and chasing young tush half his age, meanwhile while the going has been tough for me and the kids with his problems, we stayed and now he runs.
Okay, it's time to stir up a hornets nest with my usually controversial "MYTHBUSTING":
I remember learning in college that the "divorce rate is 50%" is an URBAN LEGEND!!! Somehow, I'm not sure how, there is a miscalculation, and the 50% is actually a different kind of marriage rate...something like how many end in certain circumstances.
Here's the real bomb to drop: I LEARNED THAT THE REAL DIVORCE RATE IN AMERICA IS ONLY 2%. In fact, it's less than that; something like 1.9% of marriages in America end in divorce.
Okay, I know I'm going to be chewed up and spit out for saying that, but let me have it.
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