Does Love Lead to Marriage?

by Kristyne McDaniel

Many people wonder whether love leads to marriage. Other people wonder whether love leads anywhere at all. The truth about love is that there is no truth about love; love is what you make it. Love is related to how you live your life, with a partner or without, and how you make your decisions regarding others. Love should impact everything you do as a person and should be visible through your actions. Sometimes love can hurt; most of the time, though, love also heals.

The secret to a happy marriage is, of course, love. When people talk about having the ultimate happy marriage, they are talking about being around the one they love as much as possible. For many people, marriage in those terms is the absolute apex of a love life. For others, however, a happy marriage may be no marriage at all.  Some may find that spending their lives with one person is not satisfying in the least. They may wish for many more partners and many more experiences in order for their happiness to be realized. The question many people wonder about such lifestyles is about the role that love plays in their relationships.

There are many reasons besides love that people in today's world marry and there are many reasons that those marriages end. The basic component in all of those types of relationships is selfishness and the desire to meet personal needs first and those of a partner second. It is for this reason that broken relationships appear to be on the rise. People are desiring more for themselves and less for others, leading to the inevitable deconstruction of relationship fundamentals such as trust and confidence.. With divorce and broken homes on the rise, an examination of what leads people to marry is probably in order.

The truth about love, is that there is no truth about love. There are only subjective ideas as to what marriage should be based on. In today's cynical world, the foundation for many a relationship is bent on reliance on the other person and not on selfless love. The notions of marriage and family therapy are on the rise because people, on the whole, seem to have forgotten about love.

The primary aspect of love is that it can help heal the wrongs of the world. While relationships change and the goals behind them alter with time, people will still need love. Love needs to be present to help discern the positive and negative aspects of this ever-changing world. Without love, the changes we make in our lives are meaningless.