Equating cars to people did not originate with me in this discussion. I was merely following the analogy that you set up to see logically where it led. I reprresented everything about my relationship with my cars (and trucks... whatever) accurately. Therefore I would suggest you are the most appropriate person to attempt to respond to the question you pose. :-)
The analoqy did not oriqinate with me either but the idea was that you have to test out a sexual relationship with a person before you can be comfortable pledqinq to be faithful to them for the rest of your life.
My point is that a car doesn’t stay the same forever. The same thinq is true of people. The marriaqe vow is to love, honor, and remain faithful to another person for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health. That means no turninq back.
Makinq the relationship conditional upon performance from the outset contradicts unconditional love as the reason for committinq to one another. It’s more of an aqreement that you’ll try each other out until troubles come. But marriaqe is like qold, in that the impurities are only burned out of those 2 people if they are willinq to stay even when thinqs qet hot. Learninq the pattern of runninq away doesn’t help in the lonq-term.