Marriage

Have been thinking about marriage lately. Not that I'm excited about getting hitched. It's about the unknown territory one charters after the 'I Do'.

In courtship, it's still not official. It's about understanding each other, going through patches, building a relationship and moulding a communication pattern between a couple. After the wedding, two possibilities on the relationship can happen: (1) taken for granted (2) further improvement of the relationship.

But who knows that entails?

I cannot imagine the marriage life having to be more independent, and doing more things by myself. It's plain simple logic: if I have to be burdened with more responsibilities as a result of marriage, bearing it alone, that it's just not worth the while getting married! I'd rather be single, and be responsible only to my own actions. In a marriage, it's about sharing the added responsibility together. But I've seen men, in marriage, leaving the care-taking and stuff to the wife, while he enjoys his life as before, with or without marriage.

It's a terrible life to be in such a wife's shoes, isn't it?

I haven't gotten THAT ring so far, I know it's getting near.. so perhaps that's why I'm feeling these now.