Love and Marriage

Love and Marriage Ever wonder why so many happy marriages become failed marriages? Love plays a big part of failed and happy marriages. Happy marriages are hard to obtain and keep in this day of age. Marriage is defined as “an intimate or close union” by Merriam Webster. Marriage has been used for mutual benefit, personal benefit, or just the simple uniting of a couple in love. Happy marriages seem to be rare now with the stress of jobs, life’s struggles, or just the simple temptations that can tear a marriage apart and even the lack of love. In history marriage wasn’t the uniting of a couple in love, it was for the benefit of kingdoms or families. Marriage was used to unite families for mutual benefit to gain a higher standing in a kingdom. Love was known to add difficult challenges to a marriage. Shakespeare depicted the challenges that love can add to a marriage. He showed how two young adults from feuding families could set aside their differences and find the true meaning of love between them. It went against what marriage was in that time period and joined two people in marriage for love. Even though the families hated each other and despised the marriage, they found ways to work around their family’s problems. Marriage isn’t an easy journey. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman for life, so it is a career. Whether it’s a journey or a bad one it is a choice for life. Happy marriages are rare because of the difficulty to change or understand another person. Buzzle.com’s love poem shows what love means to some people “I don 't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.” Love