It seems to me, and the statistics confirm my feelings, that marriage is in disarray these days. Psychologists, counselors, and pastors could list a myriad of reasons (money, sex, etc.) for the current instability of the marriage bond, but the more I observe broken marriages around me, the more I conclude that there is essentially one reason: we don't really believe in commitment anymore. We think we do, but we don't because we don't really understand what commitment is. You see, people used to commit to something and see it through, despite their feelings. Now we list our feelings as a valid reason for breaking our word. If you can break your commitments because you feel like it, then you haven't really committed. That, after all, is the very purpose and intent behind commitment. We commit because we know we aren't always going to feel like following through. Our commitment is a means of holding ourselves responsible to follow through even whe...