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Historically marriage began as social convention which allowed for the inheritance of property, namely land ownership. Tracing it's development, it began as something entirely separate from love and many marriages were arranged to aquire a political/socioeconomic 'advantage'. The modern notion of marriage being 'the crystalise of love' find it's roots in propaganda championed by pop culture, religion, and by various corporate agendas (especially by the diamond and film industry). As divorce rates continue to skyrocket nationally one begins to question the efficacy of such a dynamic and the influence it exerts on children (Every single person on both my mother and father's side of the family has gotten a divorce, including my parents). Do I still believe in love? Yes. Do I believe people belong together forever? No. All things are in state of transformation and relationships must eventually dissipate. To force their unity only produces grief, dissimumaltion, and insincerity.

So my true questions: How do we move forward, how are the children of future generations going to be raised, what does love mean in contemporary society?