Marriage
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When two people plan to join forces and begin that arrangement called marriage, they are generally getting into something that is, to say the least, adventurous. Historically marriage was looked upon as the main purpose of beginning, and maintaining a home and family. Today people marry for different reasons, like love, which may be based on physical attraction or any number of other reasons, though people do marry for social, political or economical reasons still today. Webster's Dictionary defines marriage as a ritual in which your marital status is affected.
Most people would agree that marriage expectations and traditions have changed over the years. And it is easy to that our images and expectations of marriage and families are constantly changing within society. As a child my outlook on marriage was very simple. My example came from the corny television shows I would watch with my baby-sitter after school, until my mother remarried. Then we became a very close knit family. My mother quit her job and became a stay-at-home mom. She was the one who made sure the homework was done, our chores got completed before we went out to play, and we were yelled at when necessary. My step-dad provided our financial backbone and took over the discipline when he got home to give mom a break. Sometimes he would work two jobs just to provide for the family and our well being.
Society has always played a major role in aspects of marriage and family. As a child I remember wanting to marry a handsome, rich man and adopting loads of children of every race and color to provide them with a happy home. But, of course, I would still have time to plan huge parties, and attend some all on my spare time.
Marriage to me was a fantasy, granted an elaborate fantasy. I was too young to realize that marriage was...
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