Do promises ever expire?

Answer 1

yes, once they are fulfilled

Answer 2

Well, I've been waiting 40 years for $10.
I think that promise is long expired.

Answer 3

To me promise is a promise and my promises never expire or I don't make them.

Answer 4

promises expire if they are for something specific - i.e. i'll pick up dog food on my way home from work...

but promises such as "i will not hurt you on purpose" - no, they do not expire. i think of it this way, we should keep our word. period. only under extreme circumstances (life or death) should our word be broken. respect is important to me, i keep my promises & i expect that others keep theirs. if they do not, i change the nature of my relationship with them.

this is a conclusion i have come to over the past 3-4 years, after getting out of a bad relationship that i hung onto too long bc i wanted it to work. you can not make people change or do things that are against their nature. some people just do not seem to care about others... i chose to surround myself w/ people who do care.

Answer 5

Depends,

In the old days one could promise to do a job, when the
job was done, so was the promise

The marriage promise seems to have fallen apart

Answer 6

promises should never expire unless the promise already happened like if someone was like ill bring you pie tommorow then they do now the promise has ended

Answer 7

I don't think they're supposed to. It depends how much you value a promise. Some people view it as someone needing to be more truthful than other times while some people think it's just something to reassure someone.

Answer 8

Interesting question! ...I don't think that promises ever expire but I think that promises are forgotten and therefore, not kept.

Answer 9

a promise is meant to never expire.

but sometimes people allow them to.

my personal opinion is that a promise is like when you get married. you give a peice of your soul to whom you promised. but sometimes people get divorced (u break ur promise)

Answer 10

Sometimes the unfulfilled promise reaches a time limit.
So the promise becomes of no effect.

Answer 11

Yes