Love and Marriage

Hey, I'm a hopeless romantic but even I realize that most folks enter into marriage with a false idea of what love really is. I've watched too many of my friends rush into marriage only to divorce a few years later because the "spark" had gone. Guess what? That spark is called infatuation and it never lasts. It isn't supposed to. That's what gets us together and true agape love is what keeps us together.

Do I think this is a new phenomenon? NO! And I think that is the point of the article. Back when a woman married for a companion and a helper she wasn't so fast to leave him. Co-dependancy (emotional, physical and financial) is what keeps a marriage together, like it or not. And counting on someone makes love grow stronger. Some folks then as well as now DO understand true love and recognize the fact that love changes over time. But many, many never do, leaving them with little incentive to stay together.