Are You Really Ready for Marriage? A Wedding Lasts a Day, A Marriage, A Lifetime
A bi-weekly singles column by Ashley Peterson
I was sitting in bed surfing the Internet on my laptop, still in my nice warm pajamas when I first came across the Yahoo! News story that set off a media frenzy last week. It was the story of stories: “Kim Kardashian Files for Divorce from Kris Humphries after Only 72 Days!” Now, before you smack your teeth, click away from this article, grumble about “another Kim Kardashian story,” hear me out.
I know Kim K is no role model—particularly not for Christian women—but there is still a lesson that can be learned from her "mistake."
One of EEW Magazine’s readers named Anita Jackson wrote in and said, “As a 36-year-old single woman who loves God and is waiting patiently for my Boaz, I felt insulted and frustrated by this flagrant abuse of the sacred institution of marriage by Kim Kardashian. Here I am doing my best to live the single life God’s way and hold out for 'the one' only to see someone get married one day (in an approximately $10 million ceremony) and change their mind the next! Ugh!”
Our editors actually received quite a few email reactions to the Kim Kardashian situation with requests to address the happenings from a Christian perspective.
Tammy P. wrote, “To be quite honest, it felt like a kick in the teeth to watch a woman promise ‘til death do us part’ and renege just several weeks down the line because her feelings changed.”
It’s hard to argue with Tammy and Anita. There was no domestic violence involved. No extra-marital affair. No serious infraction. Just a sudden change of heart that caused a new bride to decide her marriage simply wasn’t worth fighting or caring about.
So what do I, the new Single, Saved, and Satisfied relationships columnist have to say about this whole thing?
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