What IS MARRIAGE THEN?!?!

I read in the newspaper yesterday that the divorce rate in the States is up to 60%!!!! Can you even believe it? Honestly, what in the world is the purpose of marriage nowadays anyway! People move in together before they're married, so obviously it's not just to move in together. It used to mean commitment for life, but with a divorce rate that high, obviously that's not what it means. But marriage IS supposed to be life-long committment. It's supposed to mean, yeah, having your first opposite-sex roommate. It's supposed to mean that you don't go running off to get a divorce at the first fight. I mean, there ARE cases in which I think ppl can be divorced and should be divorced, but HONESTLY, these easy divorces nowadays just make it too easy for people not to work through their problems. John Legend sums it up so well (Yay, been on a John Legend kick lately...he's coming to concert...anyone wanna go??? Haha, and Billy Corgan goes on sale tmw, gee, wonder who'll be first in line!).

Stay with you

We've been together for a while now

We're growing stronger everyday now

It feels so good and there's no doubt

I will stay with you as each morning brings sunrise

And the flowers bloom in springtime

All my love you can rely

And I'll stay with you

Oh I'll stay with you through the ups and the downs

Oh I'll stay with you when no one else is around

And when the dark clouds arrive

I will stay by your side

I know we'll be alright

I will stay with you

Though relationships can get old

They had a tendency to grow cold

We have something like miracle

Yeah, I'll stay with you

Oh I'll stay with you through the ups and the downs

Oh I'll stay with you when no one else is around

And when the dark clouds arrive

I will stay by your side

I know we'll be alright

I will stay with you

And there will be heartaches and pains, yes it will

But through it all, we will remain

In this life, we all know

Friends may come, they may go

Through the years I knowI will stay

And in the end I know that we'll find

Love so beautiful and divine

We'll be lovers for the lifetime, yeah

And I'll stay with you

I will stay with you

If John Legend can sing about it, we can do it. Ahahahahaha. Anyway, I guess I just love seeing married people who admit they've had problems but have worked through them. And that's not to say they'll never have another problem in their marriage ever, but when you commit to be married, you commit to working through those problems with each other. So goodness, PLEASE, don't add to these ridiculous divorce statistics! Working through problems in marriage is great, because if you don't and decide to get divorced because you can't work through them, well, most likely those things will follow you into other relationships, anyway.

And as a disclaimer, I am single, so I really don't know what it's like to be married...but I know married people who talk about this, so I feel slightly informed. Anyway, so please forgive me if I sound misinformed or sound like I think things are so easy (i.e. have a problem, work it out, etc.). I know they're not. They require work. So I just think we should commit to working it all out.