[OPINION] Staying in a relationship should be based on the future, not the past

'If only divorce was possible in the Philippines. If only our society learned to accept that people fall in love and out of it.' Opinion

The invite was so last minute, but I agreed to go anyway. It was in two days, and I would have to travel nearly eight hours from Baguio City to Tagaytay City – in a body aching from lumbar strain – but I couldn’t pass on Tito and Tita’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration.

This renewal of vows ceremony was a new sight for me, one I’m only likely to see on my boyfriend’s side of the family, never mine. Many of the married couples in my family did not uphold their vows in the first place. There was nothing to renew. And continue to deny it they did. They maintained their longing for years past, and how they did not want to waste what they’d gone through, not realizing that staying meant squandering more years that could have otherwise been more joyful. That staying meant meaningless suffering and fighting for a miserable life.

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