Day 4,519—Parents Need to make a Vow to their Children—
Start time: 4:30 a.m. Weather: Low 82s wind 1.3 mi/h, Humidity 74% It isn’t something you hear discussed a lot, but the concept of a marriage vow serves a practical purpose: it makes it clear what one’s role and responsibility is for their partner when they enter marriage. There is never anything earthshattering about what you vow, but it becomes so commonplace for both men and women to break their vow and think nothing of all the people they lied to when they entered the agreement. I get that the main issue is breaking trust with their partner, but what about society at large?! It just makes me think that marriage should have more of a contract-based agreement where, if you break your vow, you void your agreement. If you hurt or cheat your spouse, you’re in violation and owe compensation. Yet, however meaningless the marriage vow is in the legal system, there is no kind of agreement parents make to their children. Yet...
