EXPIRATION DATE FOR MARRIAGE CONTRACTS...?

The year started out on a funny note with a pro-women party list group proposing a bill that would put an expiration date on a marriage contract - pretty much the same way a driver's license and a PRC license expires...and you know what? in a vague sort of way I kinda agree with this bill. Well, for starters it would definitely solve the problem of NOT HAVING A DIVORCE BILL IN THE COUNTRY and the fact that annulment is just for the RICH and MONEYED couples. I guess it's high time somebody thought of this since this will give any couple the option to RENEW or NOT their marriage after a period of say, ten years??? Without having to spend a dime on expensive lawyers!

But I guess, with this country being a predominantly Catholic one, I don't think this bill would ever see the light of day! Because as they always say - 'What God has put together let no man put asunder' - whether said marriages are solemnized in Church or not...oh well anyway, still, it was a good idea but I guess it would take something more than this to make separating from one's spouse a bit easier for Filipino couples... so I guess abused wives, abandoned spouses, lonely/desperate housewives may just have to wait a wee bit longer before our largely male-dominated Congress could think up a new bill to help couples get out of a marriage that both of them no longer want...