Marriage and Responsibility

The essence of marriage has never been about romantic emotional attachment, but rather a voluntary contract and a lifelong commitment to responsibility.

Love is the origin of marriage, but it cannot sustain a long-lasting union. When passion fades, marriage must return to rational responsibility: honoring commitments to your partner, safeguarding the continuation of the family, and choosing not to escape or abandon when faced with trivialities, disagreements, and difficulties.

Responsibility is not a shackle of marriage, but its core. It requires both partners to set aside self-centeredness, learn tolerance and perseverance, maintain their connection through the ordinary days, and share risks through life's storms. A marriage without responsibility is merely fragile emotional dependence that can fall apart at the slightest disturbance; only with responsibility as the foundation can marriage transcend emotional fluctuations and become a stable and enduring companionship.

Ultimately, choosing marriage is choosing to shoulder an unshirkable responsibility; and upholding that responsibility is the deepest truth of marriage.