Should marriage be a fixed term contract renewable every five to ten years?
I ABSOLUTELY think it should be set up as an optional renewable contract. The reason I say this is that there are so many people who get married, and even though they may in theory understand what they are doing, they really cannot comprehend the reality of being on the other side of a legally binding, in your face, marriage contract, whereby the only way to get out of it is to have to go thru the legal system now. I honestly don’t understand why people keep doing it. If divorce is so painful, and I don’t doubt that it is, why even set yourself up for the possibility of having to go thru something like that. In other words, we need to shed the skin of this unrealistic “fairy tale” mentality of eternal love with another human being. People change. Circumstances change. Love and affection for someone for whatever reason sometimes just naturally falls by the wayside. “Till Death Do You Part” is just an unrealistic expectation and a cruel sentence to place on someone.
