Indeed it's breaking news: vow-breaking, commitment-breaking, heart-breaking news. Here's the excerpt:
"The first five years of marriage are proving a challenge for more Singapore couples - that is when partners stray, and a rising number of marriages break down.
A study on straying couples by Touch Family Services found that slightly more than half the 164 respondents polled had affairs within five years of marriage. For one in three, the affairs happened in the first two years of married life.
The number of marriages which ended in divorce under five years rose from 272 in 1980 to 1,268 in 2012.
But those married for five to nine years continued to make up the largest group of divorcing couples over that period - 617 in 1980, and 2,084 in 2012."Ohhh, do mourn the lost art of commitment, discipline, love, trust and communication. In this predominantly relativistic, hedonistic and nihilistic world we live in, things will only get worse...never better.
As we denounce the "old", "traditional" and "conventional" way of doing things without actually asking "why" at deeper levels, we're simply heading for destruction.
We live in a time where we know so much - information all at our fingertips - yet understand so little. Bless this generation Lord and may Your call in my life to see this generation turn back to you come to past soon.
I remember this phrase from the song "Gone" by Switchfoot that says:
"...we got information in the information age but do we know, what life is?
Outside of our convenient Lexus cages..."
If you're free, do give this song a listen. It's a fantastic song about life about how life is just so fleeting and what really matters in life. Here's the lyric video below :)
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