Wedded bliss – fact or fiction? I only ask because as I hurtle closer to the day of my nuptials I have read that 45 per cent of marriages end in failure. Almost half – a scary thought especially as my best friend and I gear up to make our wedded commitments over the next few months.
And this got me thinking – will one of us end up on the divorcee scrap heap? I ponder this scary thought over a glass of wine with my happily married friend and her even happier divorced pal.
“I had a huge divorce party when my papers came through,” she chimed gleefully.
“And it was far more fun than the wedding.”
“But you must have had some good times when you were married,” I asked hopefully.
After a slurp of wine she replied: “A bad day single is always better than a good day married.”
With the Anti-Marriage Party’s words still ringing in my ears I got down to the tricky job of helping a close friend to find a suitable reading for my wedding.
After a fruitless internet search and a desperate leaf through all the poetry books I own, we stumbled across the perfect prose for the wedding day. Hidden in the pages of a philosophical book written around the lives of Winnie the Pooh and his friends, was a tale that rang true to me.
The story depicted a teacher who was cooking food for his impatient protegee.
Finally, many hours after the food should have been served, the teacher presented his young student with his meal.
“This is the most amazing food I have ever tasted,” quipped a dumbfounded student, who then pestered his master for the secret ingredient of his delicious meal.
“Please tell me, I must know how you have made this so perfect,” he pleaded.
“I gave it time,” was the simple response.
After reading the passage I vowed to take that one, tiny word to heart and tend to my marriage with care and time, in the hope that I won’t become just another depressing divorce statistic.
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