I'm celebrating my parents 26 years of marriage today! Yaaay for them!! What a journey-right!?
It's so hard to digest in todays society, with marriage taken so lightly and divorce being dealt out like a casual game of cards.
I'm speaking from a woman's perspective when I say that many of us are scared of marriage, yet many of us yearn for it.
I watch television shows like Basketball Wives, Brandy and Ray J, The Real Housewives of Atlanta and all of these shows are predominently black shows. However, what really ties them together is the tramatically negative display of marriage they portray and the women that are not married are in such a lonely and desperate state, pathetically searching for true love. Can someone say, we miss the Cosby Show! (SMH)
The fact that match.com is popular is a headturner for me by itself. When we take the REAL out of 'real love' by matchmaking through electronic computer devices, something should tell you we've made a wrong turn somewhere.
Today I'm celebrating real love.
They met in grade school and got together in highschool. Had two girls, worked hard, built there lives together and set the best example they could. Like no one on earth, they're not perfect but they've managed to stay happily married for 26 years.
Call it traditional, but I think if we returned to this "old school" way of building relationships, we would collectively be in a better state!