COMMITMENT: A ten letter word consisting of 3 vowels and 7 consonants; a word that symbolises union, loyalty, monogamy, togetherness, love, mutual respect and perhaps all those priceless sentiments which we hold in such high esteem. It’s a word almost always associated with marriage; a word that means so much in theory. Yet in practice is so more often than not reduced to a mere string of alphabetical letters.
Marriages today are crumbling for lack of commitment. So why get married in the first place if you have no intention of being loyal? Most ‘contemporary’ women, it seems, have tuned into ‘Desperate Housewives’. The infamous line of “It meant nothing. It was just sex’ being the buzz. Yes, times are hard, there is too much temptation, we are only human, and we all make mistakes. But there are some who actually think it’s OK to sleep around because it really is just sex. At the end of the day, they are going home to their to their partner; they are providing for their partner, they are ‘committed’ to their partner. So what’s the bid deal?
The irony is it is a big deal. Because commitment is...