Friday, July 23, 2010

With my signature your marriage is terminated.

Outside of people looking for citizenship, tax benefits, or perhaps health insurance, I don’t think anyone is more excited by the prospect of marriage for the involvement of the state than the vows.

I have to admit, we talked about insurance early on, but not as a reason for marriage, but as a reason that it made sense to get married so soon. We were convinced we knew each other more intimately than people married entire lifetimes, we’d been through the worst together, seen one another stretched, and still believed we’d never spend a night apart.

Marriage was attractive for the vows, the commitment that problems would be fleeting, not the relationship. In our end, the vows would be unspoken of until the courtroom. Only the legality was of consideration, discussed.