Pieces of me in letters

What do you think about a marriage that expires after 7 years? No, not a divorce. Imagine getting married and get a marriage certificate with a footnote: “Expiration date: 7 years from today”. It means your marriage have to be renewed after 7 years. You have to go tell the government that you still want to stay married to your significant other, and therefore you want to renew your marriage. Otherwise, consider yourself no longer married but without a divorce.

That is one of the craziest ideas I’ve heard in my entire life! But believe it or not, they are going to propose the idea to become a law in Germany.

I remember an article I read online few days ago, about “Trial marriage” or something like that. It’s about people who get married as a trial-and-error thing. Do it, see what happens, if it doesn’t work you can always get a divorce and try again with another person. “I decided to get married because I knew I could always escape from it by getting a divorce if I want to”. That kind of concept. It occured to me that the marriage-expiration-day thing may just be perfect for people who live that concept. They should get married in Germany!

Ok… put the joke aside….

It is sad that more people don’t see marriage as something sacred anymore. Call me old-fashioned, I don’t mind. But I really do think that marriage is a sacred thing that one should do with a serious intention: to keep it forever.  When I am married, I want it to be my first and my last. When there is problem, both should try to solve it. Like many other things in this life, a marriage needs efforts to make it work. I may not know when I am going to get married, to whom, or how my marriage will go. But I do know that I don’t want a marriage certificate with an expiration date on it and I surely don’t want a trial marriage.