An understanding that if I give you A, I can expect to get B. However, irrespective of time, culture, or age, one thing that all marriages should have in common to stay strong, is a symbiotic relationship. After doing conflict resolution for almost 20 years, I have seen marriage of many shapes and forms, and I don’t judge. Some marry for love, some marry for money, some marry for status, some marry for career growth, some marry to have a family they didn’t have, some marry because they feel they have to, etc. There are so many reasons for why people get married. Where one could walk into City Hall and get married in 10 minutes a few years back, now they have an online process where of course by paying a certain fee, you can immediately receive a marriage license easy! Well, not so, when you have to reverse the process…. Similar, but of course more metaphorically I believe is the concept of marriage. And as we have been proven bitterly many times in the past, a license is just a license to kill, and not a guideline to handle an immediate death- causing piece of metal. All you need is a license to carry a weapon. He asked me a very good question which was “mommy are guns bad” to which I responded by saying guns are not bad in and of themselves, but put them in the wrong hands, and there is a recipe for disaster. The other day I had an interesting conversation with my 10-year old son, who has recently become very intrigued by weapons because of all the superhero characters he sees carrying them.
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