Love is a beautiful thing, and these days the subject of marriage has become a very crucial one at that.
Sometimes we hear people say age is but a number, but when it comes to the issue of marriage, I think this is something to be looked at critically.
In my line of work as an event decorator and an event planner, I have witnessed wedding ceremonies of people of different age brackets; the most shocking for me was.
I once witnessed a wedding where the bride was about 10 years older than the groom—yes, you heard that right. I’ve also seen a marriage where the husband was about 10 years older than the wife. This isn’t to say that I support or oppose such situations.
The two cases I mentioned are people not too far from me, and one thing I have noticed is that one of the major factors that makes marriage last is communication and mutual respect.
I learned from stoic wisdom that when ladies are in their prime, which is between the ages of 20 and 30 years, some of them get very picky with suitors, making it difficult to woo them over. Notice I said "some," so please don't come for me in the comment section.
Now when some of these ladies become thirty and are yet to get married, some become desperate, giving older men a chance to woo them over, and when they also find a guy who is cool-headed and has a promising future, they don't mind committing to them provided there's a mutual understanding and communication.
For guys, the case sometimes is because women tend to mature very quickly; they look for younger ladies. However, only a very few ladies who are cool-headed will commit at this stage, which also makes some of those guys look for mature ladies.
Now personally, marriage is a lifetime commitment, and you want to commit to someone who completes you and is able to help you achieve your dreams as much as you are able to help them achieve their dreams.
Because when you come together, you should be better off than when you were alone, so whether you are within the same age bracket or not, it is important to communicate and have mutual understanding, and once this is done, then any marriage can survive.
Marriage is the only institution where you get a certificate before you even start the journey, so no matter the age bracket you fall in, one thing is needed: information.
I have seen people whose marriages didn't last, and later when they were asked, they admitted that they lacked the information and communication to handle their situation at the time, and if they knew what they knew now, they would have been better partners to their spouses.
So whether couples are of a particular age bracket or not, they must be properly informed and communicate appropriately to make their union work; financial management and emotional intelligence are the basics on which marriage thrives.
Legally there could be an age bracket of not more than 5 to 10 years, as it were, to protect minors.
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