A New Definition Of Marriage
A new definition of marriage for the 21st century.
Marriage is for serious people.
It's the only life path which provides the greatest opportunity for mutual self discovery within a safe committed nurturing environment.
If you are thinking about marriage, you and your Mr. Right, must read and discuss your mutual understanding of what is written here.
Do you both understand it the same way?
The greatest misunderstanding between two people has to do with their definition of marriage. They may not have considered what the ramifications are.
This has been written as both a declaration of intent as well as an agreement.
We believe marriage to be the single most important covenant two people will ever consciously enter into during their lifetimes.
Being so, we mutually and individually proclaim and agree to the following:
Marriage is a conscious decision between two people to share their hearts, minds, emotions, bodies, experiences, dreams and their lives in a mutually exclusive loving and committed relationship.
We further agree that no internal or external resistance, barrier or distraction will serve to alter or impinge upon our mutual desire to be each others best friend, confidant and monogamous lover. We pledge ourselves to surrender ever more completely to the sacred trust between us, which is the foundation of our friendship and marriage.
We agree to further define marriage to mean there is no hiding, avoiding, or denial of how we feel about each other, ourselves or any situation life brings us individually or together.
We pledge our desire to feel absolutely safe with each other to express these feelings with each other and will respect the validity of those feelings whether or not they are based upon fact or conjecture. It is our individual responsibility to enlighten each other when we clearly see conjecture to be the underlying cause of those feelings. Our mutual goal is to always strive for truth in ourselves, each other and the way we perceive our day-to-day reality.
We pledge ourselves to support and enable the best qualities in each other and to work toward always becoming better people. We will therefore not overlook, deny or enable self-defeating attitudes, habits and actions in ourselves or each other.
We believe our marriage makes us one entity while simultaneously provides us with the foundation to become whole, complete and individualized entities.
We have consciously made the decision that marriage provides the best possible life path for self-realization and self-actualization.
We therefore enter into the solemn unwavering personal commitment of marriage.
By adhering to the best of our abilities, with the intention that our current standards of conduct, perception of truth, individual transparency and love for each other will continue to evolve into an ever greater capacity to love, we pledge ourselves to this most sacred human commitment until the last breath of our individual life experience has come and gone.
-Bob and Gwen Baran
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