I agree with you, but I also think that people making commitments to love one another through their whole lives (and I don't just mean marriage, but any commitment, public or private, legal or not) regardless of the whims of their emotions is a good thing...
I guess people think that the act of declaring publicly the intention to commit to another human being can help to consolidate that. I'm not saying it does, but this is the theory behind it, and I can see some logic in that. People stop being in love with each other the whole time -- but that doesn't mean you have to stop loving someone, because I think that to love someone is an act of care and unselfish nurturing that transcends feelings.
I'm not supporting the Tory policy plan; but I do think that relationships that involve children should be based on more than feelings. You can't promise to feel the same way about someone their whole life, but you can promise to love someone their whole life. And maybe encouraging more people to commit, in some form, might make for less disturbed and feral children, such as the ones I taught this morning in East London!!
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I guess people think that the act of declaring publicly the intention to commit to another human being can help to consolidate that. I'm not saying it does, but this is the theory behind it, and I can see some logic in that. People stop being in love with each other the whole time -- but that doesn't mean you have to stop loving someone, because I think that to love someone is an act of care and unselfish nurturing that transcends feelings.
I'm not supporting the Tory policy plan; but I do think that relationships that involve children should be based on more than feelings. You can't promise to feel the same way about someone their whole life, but you can promise to love someone their whole life. And maybe encouraging more people to commit, in some form, might make for less disturbed and feral children, such as the ones I taught this morning in East London!!