August is usually a peak time for weddings.
In fact, there are solid reasons to get married. It has been a long time for heterosexuals, and hopefully from the next voting weekend onwards, marriage will be an option for everyone.
There are good reasons for marrying in order to facilitate naturalization for a foreign partner. Or when a couple wants to adopt children together. Only married couples can also make full use of the services of reproductive medicine or Swiss sperm banks.
Another good reason is waste: a party with exuberant, by no means expedient pictures that you only believe in by performing them in front of an audience. A thousand white doves, a senseless white, lace-soaked disposable dress with a veil and train, a carriage for the church, then a helicopter that carries you to heaven, the secular oath of loyalty in a Romanian Dracula castle, please don’t forget garlic, humor, haha , included.
Weddings celebrate wedding
Unfortunately, since a federal court ruling at the beginning of this year, marriage is no longer suitable for economic security for housewives. The person who stayed at home is no longer entitled to the preservation of the marital standard of living: Should a divorce occur, everyone is responsible for themselves, no matter how long they changed diapers, patted children’s heads, supervised homework and cleaned azure bathroom floors and was away from it the world of professional life, where casual work is even rewarded with income.
Either way, there are quite a few people for whom marriage is a losing business, keyword “marriage penalty” for federal taxes and the AHV.
And yet weddings celebrate weddings. Is not that crazy?
Eternal this eternal fidelity
The height of madness is marked by the fact that the reason most cited by those willing to marry is the worst, namely: love. Because love cannot be helped with state security. On the contrary: marriage bears the seeds of distrust. Whoever swears “eternal loyalty” inevitably lives beyond his means. Anyone who marries involuntarily thinks of divorce.
So why get married? That’s why. Precisely because the divorce rate is hopelessly high at 40 percent, only blind belief helps: everything will be fine.
Ursula von Arx got married for solid reasons and without a helicopter. Lucky So she still believes that every day can be the best. Von Arx writes in Blick every other Monday.