I have observed with dismay how some of our youths nowadays rush into marriage. Hence the need to talk and share my experience about it.
Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce. Over the course of a relationship that can last as many as seven or eight decades, a lot happens. Personalities change, bodies age, and romantic love waxes and wanes. And no marriage is free of conflict. What enables a couple to endure is how they handle that conflict.
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage). The definition of marriage varies around the world not only between cultures and between religions, but also throughout the history of any given culture and religion, evolving to both expand and constrict in who and what is encompassed, but typically it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged or sanctioned. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.
There are different types of marriage which include: Monogamy, Serial Monogamy, Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry, Plural Marriage etc.
Marriage is something we cannot avoid at a point in our lives but it's very pertinent to note that we do not just get married because we want to be with somebody or we want our status to change. I've seen people who got married because their friends did, I have seen people getting married to their partners out of pity and I have seen people who married just because they were insecure without even bother to go through the normal courtship between would be couple. Some of these people had separated or having one issue or the other in their various homes. It took me 7 years before I considered getting married to my wife. I met her in 2007 and we got married in 2014. Not because I wanted to waste her time but to know the type of woman I was getting married to.
Endeavour to study your partner before deciding to go into marriage. Choose your partner wisely. A word is enough for the wise.
Thank you.
#L'Ray🇳🇬