How Marriage Has Changed Over Time

The most interesting fact I learned was how much marriage has changed over time. That marriage used to be about the relationship between families; turning strangers in family, making political alliance, and gaining social status. Now recently we have created the radical idea that marriage ought to be about love. The idea of “lets get married because we love each other” - made marriage more demanding and more likely to end in divorce. The very things that made marriage more potentially satisfying, make it more difficult.

This is interesting because it is so true. The way Americans look at marriage is not healthy, biblical, or ethical. All we see when we look at marriage is what we can get out of it. We look for our soul mates that will make
us happy, but if we are looking for satisfaction in a marriage then we will never be content. A human being is not going to “complete you” or “make you happy”, they might make you feel happy for a couple weeks, months, or even years. Eventually, they will fail you in some way. Not that all marriage is doomed, but it is if you are looking for pure happiness out of it.