But with divorce and parents spending more time at work than at home, adolescents have grown into a world where their emotional needs are not met by God, or even by parents, but by other fickle adolescents trying to get a grasp on who they are.
Perhaps the insecurity of not having involved parents has caused us to look toward another peer to fill the void and security that parents in the past provided. We have committed relationships with people…until we don’t. We practice it in lesser forms in middle school and high school. And that has caused a generation of young people to say, “Marriage is not for me unless I know for sure that I have found the one.” Now, it shouldn’t be that surprising that serial monogamy is a thing in our culture. We have seen too many expectations destroyed. We have seen too many marriages fall apart. Americans and Western society in general have a growing distrust of the institution of marriage. But rather a commitment to one relationship at a time, as opposed to a marriage to one person until death. It’s defined as the practice of engaging in a succession of monogamous sexual relationships.
They will marvel at the divorce rate, see their friends struggling, and wonder if it is possible to actually make it to “till death do us part.” As I have been pondering our next sermon series at WBCC, I have been thinking about why it seems so hard. Recently I stumbled onto a trend in our culture called Serial Monogamy. They want their marriage to last forever. Whenever I meet with couples for counseling, many want to know the secret to a long lasting marriage.