Love and Marriage and a Baby Carriage.

Jon and Kate plus 8. We all know em (or think we do). Some of us love em...some of us don't. I pretend to dislike them but find myself getting sucked in to their daily lives and the drama that ensues with 8 children. The drama sh** hit the fan on tonight's show. Dun-DUN-DUUUNNN. Yes. TV producers love it. The BIG announcement...a life changing decision...bringing peace to our family...blah blah blah. D-I-V-O-R-C-E. After watching the show in which they made this BIG announcement, I found myself feeling sad. Sad for the kids. Sad for the two of them. Sad for the whole situation. It made me think.

I told my best friend that I was feeling inexplicably sad about this show. To which she replied..."Get a grip. It happens everyday to people who aren't millionaires." Good point. It does happen ALL the time. Does that make it OK? Does that make it any easier for the parties involved? I feel as though our culture and society has become so callous to divorce because it IS SO common. I am a strong believer in marriage. I take it quite seriously. It upsets me when people don't take it seriously. I have had some great examples of marriage in my life. My parents are the first: 32 years of marriage and going strong. My grandparents: 59 years of marriage (my grandpa died 4 months before their 60th wedding anniversary). I have a lot of friends who still have married parents. When they committed to their partner, when they said those cliche vows, they understood the promise they were making. Forever. The promise of forever loving...forever supporting...forever being there...forever laughing through the tears.

I am not married. Nor have I ever had a serious relationship. I am not speaking from experience. I am speaking from my heart and what I believe. Bill Cosby has this view on marriage, "For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Maybe it is a miracle for two people to stay married for a lifetime. I wish it was a miracle that happened more often. Maybe for some people marriage is not the right path to take. That is fine. Better to realize the truth from the beginning than to try and fail. No one ever claimed marriage would be easy...did they?