ALT-5 Best Reasons to Marry
In that love, true love, is a decision one makes to FEEL for another and entrust one's most vulnerable self to another, then the best reason to marry, which is yet another decision, would be that you have found the person worthy of such a grave responsibility as to protect you as you would yourself. A person who exhibits a level of responsibility over their own person, proves worthy of such a feat as protecting our vulnerabilities and weaknesses because of love. Such a person shows by their actions, lifestyle and life choices that they understand the meaning and significance of the words fraternity, honor, trust and fidelity, integrity and character and have no problem sharing their life, perspectives, frailties and strengths with you. It is indeed only when such careful evaluations have been made that one can truly assess that they have found the BEST reasons to marry.
Indeed it is certainly not because of financial stability, family connection and/or name, social standing or simply a feeling that one finds overwhelming, that one should embark upon such a life altering decision of marriage.
In our lifetimes, we find very few decisions that we are the sole arbiters of. The decision to marry and that of bearing a child affords us this exclusive discretion. We are the sole authority over these life decisions and we owe it to ourselves to invest the time, energy, thought and spirituality into this decision making process as we give to some of the less important but not necessarily trivial issues we face in life - that of our choice of professions and jobs for example. In preparation for any position, we research the company we are about to be interviewed by to find out as much as possible about the direction that company is going so that we can see if it meets with our plans and goals. We however, divorce ourselves from such preparedness when it comes to the choice of spouse we will promise to spend the rest of our lives with "for better or for worse" and wonder why we end up wanting to divorce rather than standing behind our decision to love and marry (if it was a "decision") with the strengths of the convictions we had we we promised to love.
