Would you enter into a Covenant Marriage?
June 30th, 2009 by DannyNelsonQuestion posted on Yahoo! Answers: Would you enter into a Covenant Marriage? Covenant marriage (CM) is an alternative form of marriage which opposite-sex couples can choose in place of regular marriage. It is more difficult to get into and more difficult to escape from via divorce. CM legislation is basically a return to the marriage law prior to the introduction of no-fault divorce. A divorce normally requires one spouse to prove that the other spouse is guilty of adultery or abuse. Marriage breakdown, as evidenced by a period of marital separation, is an alternative ground for divorce. But the interval required can be quite long. An additional feature of CM is the requirement for premarital counseling, and perhaps pre-separation counseling.
What are your thoughts?
July 1st, 2009 at 8:06 AM
My wife and I got our marriage license in Anderson, SC in 2004. We had a choice between two types of marriage licenses. The first was a “standard” license and the second had a legal feature on it that required the couple to go to counseling for a year before they could start the divorce process.
I believe that if you go into a marriage with those choices and choose the one that’s easier to get out of, then you’re doomed from the outset. Your marriage would be on shaky ground even before you say “I do.”
Of course, my wife and I chose the license with the counseling feature. We won’t use it, because we do recognize that our marriage is a covenant between us and God.