Most of the promises we make don’t reflect real-life love beyond the ceremony. If you could re-write your vows, what would they be?
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I read this great article last month on Huffington Post: 10 Honest Marriage Vows You Never Hear at Weddings. I liked this idea…real life vows that make sense in regular, every day, relationships.
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Yet, even this list that reflects a more modern relationship didn’t really reflect my own life or my own marriage. We’re childless by choice so promises about kids don’t really make sense for us and money isn’t really one of the things we ever quarrel about. We quarrel about far more pettier things like who gets the remote!
Most of us get that all relationships are different. Promises or vows shouldn’t be one size fits all. Some couples cannot legally marry. Some couples choose not to marry but still want to make promises to one another.
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The Good Men Project is starting a conversation about The Promises We Should Be Making.
- What do you think? Are promises and vows even relevant in modern relationships?
- What are the promises we should be making?
- If you could write vows or promises, what would they be?
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The commitments we make speak to our intentions. Our promises become meaningless beyond the ceremony if they are not applicable to the lives we live and the people we share them with.
Commitment starts with a promise. What should we really be promising?
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not sure why that required m o d squad
Our vows were simple. In my faith, marriage is a sacrament and within that sacrament, the vows we take are a commitment to God. It’s not just us, it’s in communion with Gods blessings.
http://www.foryourmarriage.org/marriage-as-sacrament/
Simple … 3. (Name), do you take (name) to be your wife/husband? Do you promise to be true to her/him in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love her/him and to honor her/him all the days of your life?…I do.
It’s pretty simple and all encompassing … we recently celebrated our 40th.
Tom “To be true” . Not everybody today agree on what that acually means. Are you true when you have close emotional relationships to others online? A friend of mine got divorced because his wife had panic attacks because he had several women friend online that he wrote letters to and chatted with .,When challenged he said he had the right to speak to (communicate with) other persons than his wife,and she had a problem! He admitted to be attracted to the women he corresponded with, but still said his wife had problems when this made her upset. She was… Read more »
Heather I do not think the artikle in Huffington was great.
But I think your questin is!