So if a couple is living together,
if they have a legal contract for rent or mortgage,
if they co-own pets, furniture, bank accounts,
what is it to become engaged?
Gary suggests that engagement really doesn't have anything to do with marriage (for most people out there in the world today) but is more about planning a big hoopla of a party ... and possibly a splendiferous vacation/honeymoon too.
And that would be why we Christians appear to be such oddities -- focused more on the decades-long marriage than on the day-long wedding.
And it would also explain why so many living-together couples end up divorcing not long into the marriage. Sometimes the thing they had in common was the event of the wedding, and once that's past, it's past.
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