I grew up seeing my parents married and living together as a lovely family. I haven’t had to experience what a broken home looks like and I’m very grateful for that because I know people from such homes and what they have had to go through. Marriage is a good thing but as we might have already knows, it is also hard. Marriage has both is good and bad side. There won’t always be happy days, there would be days when you would feel like you married the wrong person but at the end of the day, all this will pass by and we would forget about all we had to go through.
In the institution of marriage, we understand that it’s not a. It’s mot all the time that things would go well, and that’s totally fine. But to what extent can things go wrong. They say marriage is for better for worse, which means that in good health and in sickness, one would be there for the other. No matter how bad things get, we would’ve there for each other. But to what extent can we be there for our partners. Just a few days ago, a video resurfaced on the internet where a man was beating his wife with a cane on their compound and a tenant recorded and posted it on TikTok.
Apparently, this woman has been living in an abusive marriage since she got married. The man has been beating her like a punching bag yet she can’t leave because she had no means to take care of her kids if she should leave. Eventually, she did leave, but the man managed to bring her back home and little did she know he was bringing her home to kill her. And that was how she ended up receiving beatings in her own husbands house, but naked on the floor.
I ask myself if this is really the marriage we are talking about or there’s another one because I don’t think this marriage deserves a for better for worse commitment. A man or a woman who is your partner beating you blue black doesn’t even deserve for commitment to start with. Once they raise their hands at you, pack your bags and go your way because the longer you stay, the closer you are to your grave. To me, for better for worse commitment in marriage is for only people who actually prove they deserve it, not manipulative and abuse partners.
Marriage is a commitment, yes. But that doesn’t mean you should tolerate nonsense all in the name of marriage. Know your worth and stand on it.
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The thin cross line is when any right has being restricted or abused. For better and for worse is used to remind couples that everyday they'd spend together won't always be rosy,happy,some of the days will come with misunderstanding, quarrels, etc.
It is used to tell couples to still love each other when things aren't all tha good and romantic anymore. To remind them that they are both in it together.
Commitment should be mutual. The problem starts when the partner cannot match your long-term commitment and fantasizes that a paradise exists elsewhere outside of marriage. Yes, there are lamentable stories of battered wives. But don't forget that the trend right now, particularly in the West, is the increasing number of psychologically, financially, and emotionally abused husbands. Both society and the legal process love to perpetuate such a trend.
I agree with you to some extend, and that's why I think you should be careful when choosing a soul mate.