Love and Marriage

Mary asked me to write a post about love. I would first like to express my opinions on marriage. I think that marriage is a right, not a privilege. However, when asked the question "Why is divorce so expensive?" a wise man replied "Because it's worth it."

I would now like to take the opportunity to quote one of my favorite people.

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."
-Julie Andrews

I once read an article in either Time Magazine or National Geographic Magazine that you can only be in love for a maximum of five years. It basically states that humans are not meant to be monogamous. I agree 100%. In order for a marriage to be successful it hast to be built on more than lust. Sex is fantastic and everything, but what do you have once the flames have died down? Not very much.

I don't think that this article gives anyone the excuse to run around two-timing. Love isn't supposed to be easy. If a long-term relationship is what you really want, you have to work at it. It's not something that will just happen all on it's own. In the end, it's more than just love that makes a succesful marriage, it's perseverance.

SEXUAL EDUCATION

...Or sex ed as they like to call it, is something that is completely ignored in my school. This "abstinence-only" education is simply denying the students the information they need to go into the real world. Sure many adults feel that if you teach a student how to unroll a condom on a banana that many more teens will feel prepared to have sex, but if you deny the students this right to learning, aren't they that much more likely to practice unsafe sex thereby risking pregnancy? It is entirely understandable that the faculty at school would preach abstinence until marriage and that can still occur, but the fact is that in today's world, pre-marital sex is much MUCH more likely, and students should know how to practice this safely if they choose to do so.