WHY DOES MARRIAGE EXIST AT ALL?
WHY DOES MARRIAGE EXIST AT ALL? Let us pause and ask a deeper question. Why does marriage exist in the first place? Is it merely a ceremony created by society? Or is it humanity’s attempt to bring order and responsibility into the continuation of the human race? If humans never created the institution of marriage, what would society look like? Temporary relationships. Irresponsible intimacy. Children without stable families. Commitments disappearing the moment convenience fades. In many ways, marriage was society’s way of saying: Responsibility must follow intimacy. Without that structure, human behaviour could easily resemble what we see in nature among animals — instinct-driven relationships without long-term accountability. But humans are not just creatures of instinct. Humans also carry within them something far more complicated. Desire. Fear. Self-interest. Cunningness. Greed. The search for security. And because of these traits, m...