The Traditional Roles Of Marriage

As long as I have known about the practice of marriage, I have also known about the traditional roles associated with marriage. I grew up aware of the belief that woman are usually the domesticated ones, staying home to raise children and tend to the house. While men were known as the providers, going off to work most of the day to take care of the family. This is the type of dynamic I grew up in for most of my life. That all changed once I was an adult, and my father could no longer work his job. My mother went back to school, and eventually back to a fulltime job. My father took over most of her home responsibilities and anything else that needed to be done around the house. Seeing a marriage flip a hundred and eight degrees from traditional to modern definitely changed my views on the subject. I don’t believe that
Who is to say what is right and wrong for a person’s marriage? Simply because things have been this way for a while is not a good enough excuse to live one’s life in way that doesn’t provide them happiness. This belief that men and women have to fit in this traditional mold is absurd. Personalities are made up of many complicated things. To say the people should do certain things based on their sex is trying simplify the beautiful complexity of the human mind. Often times, traditional roles are not right for certain situations. Maybe some marriages simply can’t be traditional and that is okay. Since marriage is about the people in it, I think the most important part is making sure they are both satisfied with themselves and each other. The opinion of other’s should not be a factor since they are not part of the relationship. Everyone is unique, which makes everyone’s relationship unique. Trying to mold them around this idea of what roles should be played by whom is like trying to use the same part to fix every car, it is not going to