The business of getting married!

Love, responsibility, planning, sharing, sacrifice, and one very important role, management! Like any successful business. There needs to be people who are responsible for various aspects of the "marriage business". Someone needs to be the Chief financial officer (CFO) of the enterprise. Or it will get bankrupt in no time!

More than 50% of all divorces were due to poor financial planning. People over spending, or misspending. While the income in the US happens to be one of the greatest in the world, poor financial planning by couples landed so many at the hard floors of courts with bitter divorces.

This all leads me to an amazing deep meaning that is driven from the Hadith, "Who ever can Afford it, should get married". Now I'm not promoting anything here. But this thought popped into my mind. Why was affording it considered as a pretense for marriage? Did people know something we don't these days? Actually, we all know it! We just choose to neglect it.

Romance, is one of the pillars of Marriage, but it's the most delicate. So delicate that it's the first to go with the least roughness. Something that is usually accompanied by financial hardships.

Although, many men and women would persevere through the hard times. Many others would crumble and decide to just give up.

All of these negative thoughts could be avoided with some simple planning. The odds are, more people would end up much happier had they taken some financial classes. Or perhaps, some family financial planning courses.

In my humble opinion, such family building classes should be prerequisite to marriage in any country with high divorce rate (which is about the whole world!)

Marriage is exactly like a business. It has it's joys and disappointments. The better you know how to run your business the more successful and secure you are. Now shouldn't we all apply that to the greatest partnership in our life?