When I heard about a women’s partylist group proposing that marriage should have an expiration date, I almost laughed out loud. I can’t imagine why people, most especially women, would think that giving marriage an expiration date would be advantageous for them.

I read up about the issue and found out that the partylist 1-Ako Babaeng Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA) made this proposal. I still don’t understand why they think that married women would find it difficult to be successful, that they should rethink their marriages, after a period of ten years. This is definitely… funny. The news articles I have read did not really indicate the specifics of the proposal so if you actually understand what their goal is, can you explain it to me?

Maybe there are other issues that need to be addressed? I found out that the group’s main advocacy is to empower women to be financially independent. So I don’t really see the connection. What issues did they think of to come up with that kind of a proposal? Didn’t they think that because of ideas and proposals like this, people don’t take women seriously.

I am single. I’m all for women’s rights and equality. I’m still in the process of trying to be independent. And maybe I don’t believe that marriage is for me, especially at this point in my life. But… I would not ever think that marriages should expire.