Remember the old traditional marriage vows? “…For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.”
There are good reasons for these words, and other words of commitment like them, and these reasons are not just the ones you might think.
Of course there’s the obvious element of duty, of keeping your commitments to others to establish trust and to maintain an honorable reputation – with yourself as well as with others.
Then there’s the recognition that others are counting on you, and that your success or failure at sticking with your commitment to them will affect their lives, particularly when children are involved.