We trade our cars in for new models, upgrade our cell phones, move to different neighborhoods and houses, buy a new coffeemaker 3 times a year, get the newest ipod, upgrade programs, switch jobs and throw out our old clothes for new ones every season. We are always looking for the next best thing in everything we do, we are constantly changing the things we have in our life and replacing items the minute they become obsolete, even if they aren't broken. How then are we expected to keep the same boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives?? Now through the media and sadly reality, we are learning to trade in our loved ones for newer models whenever we want, not willing to put in the hard work of making a relationship work but craving the old ideas about what marriage can be. I read an interesting Time article called, Is There Hope for the American Marriage?. I sure hope so, this quote from the article warns of bad things to come if not:
"Think of it this way: the current generation of children, the one watching commitments between adults snap like dry twigs and observing parents who simply can't be bothered to marry each other and who hence drift in and out of their children's lives — that's the generation who will be taking care of us when we are old."
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