When you’re single and a friend’s marriage end because of money, to you the single person, how can ‘mere’ money cause problems? Young marriages are breaking down and unfortunately, it’s not because of abuse or philandering but because one person tried to financially ‘outsmart’ the other or one person is accumulating debts by ‘gathering dust’.

We can all spend our monies anyway/anyhow we deem fit but when we decide to marry, we should be fiscally responsible first for our own good and the home we want to build together as family. When splashing monies during ‘courting’ (what we call courting these days is actually having sex and not studying the person), generations unborn should somehow be put into consideration.

Money shouldn’t rule us; we should be ruling the cash!

Some of us women especially don’t expect some lifestyles to change just because we are married. If during the courtship years, our main kitchen (main as the operative word) was the restaurants and takeaways (where the man is forking out money for the meals), we can’t ‘afford’ to relocate our kitchen to our matrimonial homes otherwise it will be ‘starvation galore’ – better to start things the way you’d like it to be.

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