If you were to get married, would you want it to say you want to be together
“as long as you both shall live” (til death do us part)
OR
“as long as you both shall love” ?
Maybe the change of the L word has caused the increase of divorce in modern times.
Maybe the fact society recognizes that not every marriage works out, that people should not be forced to remain in abusive situations, and the fact that women are no longer reliant on being the chattel of a man to survive has more to do with it than the wording of the wedding ceremony.
Ok maybe the wording doesn’t really affect things but which wording would be more in line with your beliefs?
We used the “until death do we part” in ours, actually, and so far so good, but at the time we understood that to be an ideal, not something carved in stone.
My father’s side of the family has long utilized marriage contracts that permitted divorce, but then, they were never Christian so they never used Christian wording in their marriages anyway. Oddly enough, divorce wasn’t particularly common, the wording doesn’t have much to do with it. My parents didn’t part until death even if they didn’t use the Christian phrasing when they got married.
I think it’s not a matter of MY beliefs, it’s what the couple getting married believes, or wants, or whatever.