Marriage Revisions

I wrote this originally in August 2007 over on my old blog:

“Why does this make us nervous? Marriage needs revision. If the current model of marriage provides married couples with a 50/50 percent chance of success, why are we not advocating for a different way. 50% success rate is just not good enough and equates marriage to a game of Russian roulette. I just care too much about my marriage to accept a 50/50 guarantee. No thanks.

We’re too nervous to have conversations about the marriage institution. Religion, moralism and the Church complicates the issue, preventing any sort of revisions from being made. We might agree revisions are needed, but I’m not sure any of us are gutsy enough to actually start conversing about revised expressions of marriage or what marriage 2.0 actually means.

The Church is the worse, failing to be honest about it’s failure to marriage. The Church hasn’t championed a bold new vision for married life in the 21st Century and instead insist on advocating for a model of married life that’s broken and at best provides a 50% chance. Married couples are too quickly blamed for the failure or demise of their own relationships We rarely consider the fact that marriage itself might need some major improvements. Maybe couples aren’t to blame. As the Church has attempted to protect marriage and the family, I’m not sure it has offered any new hope.”

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