2008 Woodie Awards
Marriage can equal bliss
Megan DeWald-Kline
Issue date: 12/4/07 Section: Opinion
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Instead, I think marriage requires courage today that it didn't necessarily require before. It takes courage to take it seriously, to stand before friends and family (and God, in my belief) and promise to love another person with all his imperfections. In many ways, I think it requires even more courage to allow another person to promise to love your own imperfect self. I can only imagine that many marriages come to a tragic end because the pain and struggle involved in this process requires more courage than we can muster.
I think we're missing the larger hope for life that our female predecessors imagined when we diminish some of what makes a woman unique by removing her from the possibility of love, wholeness and family that can be found in marriage. Love in marriage is a historical luxury, but it now has a privileged place as its basis. Women can give of themselves in marriage and family in a manner that lovingly embraces them as persons. And children, both male and female, can be raised in an environment of love, equality and affirmation as to who and what they are and can become.
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Unsigned editorials represent the majority opinion of the Cauldron editorial staff. All other columns and opinion pieces represent solely the opinion of the author.
I think we're missing the larger hope for life that our female predecessors imagined when we diminish some of what makes a woman unique by removing her from the possibility of love, wholeness and family that can be found in marriage. Love in marriage is a historical luxury, but it now has a privileged place as its basis. Women can give of themselves in marriage and family in a manner that lovingly embraces them as persons. And children, both male and female, can be raised in an environment of love, equality and affirmation as to who and what they are and can become.
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Unsigned editorials represent the majority opinion of the Cauldron editorial staff. All other columns and opinion pieces represent solely the opinion of the author.