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Why Marriage?
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Mari Nichols-Haining
Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person,
With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body...
Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me,
Who won't hold them against me,
Who loves me when I'm unlikable,
Who sees the small child in me, and
Who looks for the divine potential of me...
Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night
With someone who thanks God for me,
With someone I feel blessed to hold...
Because marriage means opportunity
To grow in love in friendship...
Because marriage is a discipline
To be added to a list of achievements...
Because marriages do not fail, people fail
When they enter into marriage
Expecting another to make them whole...
Because, knowing this,
I promise myself to take full responsibility
For my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness
I create me, I take half of the responsibility for my marriage
Together we create our marriage...
Because of this understanding
The possibilities are limitless. |
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| So true. |
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| Name: Jenny | 2007-02-11 |
| This is the most true to life poem about marriage I have ever read. The promises spoken of are those always taken for granted and often forgotten. The dialog about feeling complete by oneself without the other yet wanting the other to enrich one's life is lovely, so often people think that marriage will fill what's missing... it won't, only you can do that. Marriage should be the union of two whole individuals not two halves... sorry Aristophanes. |
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| Name: JMK | 2007-07-28 |
| These words are the truest I've ever heard. It is very true that two people should come together whole not as half a person. That why many marriages don't work because people think that a marriage should "fix" them. It doesn't work that way. It only works when two people are on the same wavelength and they bring wholeness to a marriage. Marriage is what you put it to it. |
| wow |
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| Name: Jaimee | 2007-12-11 |
| Brought tears to my eyes! And a smile to my heart! |
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