A
very pretty and popular Spanish actress got married recently. When
asked by a reporter what did the wedding mean to her, she said that
it's a life long promise to love just one person, that loyalty was very
important to her, adding that even after many years when married life
becomes more routine, she will still, day after day, choose her husband
to be the one she love, and not any other.
She
immediately got the severe retort that she shouldn't have got married
in that case, as she had suggested she might be attracted to another,
and that its' only for loyalty she felt obliged to choose the husband
over the others. There's nothing worse, the reporter said , that when
you are in the arms of your husband, you have to let the image of
another to pass your mind then remind yourself that you should by
promise stay with the one you got. The poor girl was so taken by the
surprise attack she was speechless and the interview was interrupted by
her press agent.
We
are all but mere human, and as such we possess strong wills as well as
weaknesses, part of human nature. I wonder how many married couples
can honestly say that they have never for even a fleeting moment been
tempted, just in thought or imagination, by another other than their
rightful spouses. Many might have seriously considered the change and
some do.
This only illustrates that the love that led to their getting married was never actually that solid and sound in the first place. Or that it was, at the time, because of immaturity, confusing infatuation or sexual attraction with love. Or one might have changed, literally, to have become another, now a stranger, for many and varied reasons.
Love should not be bound by words of promise but by your heart.
