Hi Forum members, Seeing the high rate of cost of living in our country today, please I want to ask how has this bad or better still tough economic situations affected your family and marriage?
For those already in it, has it cause chaos/disorder between you and your partners?
And those that entered it not long, does this current situations make you lament taking such decision.
For the bachelors/spinsters, are you grateful been single this moment?
Share your experiences?
Of course, bad economic conditions will affect marriage, especially early marriage. Because in general people who marry at an early age often experience economic problems and become a source of family disharmony. Many couples divorce due to financial failure. Because with economic problems can become serious problems such as domestic violence or others. Too young age and little experience will make it difficult to improve their economic conditions. Especially if the couple in early marriage immediately gets pregnant and has children. Needs are increasing while their abilities as parents do not change.
It is undeniable that a person's economic condition will affect marriage. Marriage is financially expensive, especially if you choose the wrong partner, it will be economically ruined. And it is true as you said, many divorce cases also start with poor or unstable economic conditions.
I come from a Muslim-majority country and we do have problems with marriage, although I am not sure the scale is the same as other countries. I think the younger generation is more focused on education and career than the previous generation, both men and women, so people are delaying marriage as a result.
Plus, marriage here is also expensive and many women are too concerned with a lavish wedding party than actually getting married, and fewer men are willing to accept these requirements. It is true that not all women in my country are like this, but this has become a tradition so that the majority feel entitled to an expensive wedding party, and this is a factor for men to think about marriage because marriage is very expensive.