Marriage for all the wrong reasons…
“In Singapore you start living by yourself [only] when you register for a flat and get married, which kind of sucks because so many things hit you at the same time. You haven’t even learned how to manage your own finances; now you’re expected to manage finances of your new family and cope with a bunch of other things and make decisions which have been made for you for the past 20+ years. So it’s a big culture shock I think for Singaporeans: people need to feel some sort of impact in their lives before they care about things. People don’t care about politics early on because it doesn’t seem to affect them, but when they start working and realize how screwed they are they start trying to care but it’s normally too late by then.”
“Anyway, it’s his life, but sometimes I feel that as a friend I should advise him a little on financial awareness. You know, 1 in 2 marriages end up in divorce, and most of the time the reason is money. [Yet] he told me marriage has nothing to do with money and he doesn’t need money for a stable marriage, and he doesn’t read the news or cares about politics or anything.”
I could agree much with what the article is about. Those who say that money is not important in a marriage, you gotta wake up your ‘bloody’ brain. Such things only happen in a fairy tale and you are just living in a fairyland. Money is actually the next important element after love in a marriage. So the next time I wanna marry someone, I’ll make sure I have the means to do so, I wouldnt want my other half to suffer even if I had to go hungry…
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