Working Together

There are many different reasons for divorce, but a very common one is poor financing skills. Why would this be a hardship between a married couple? To be able to control spending too much money, there needs to be rules of how to use the money that was given to that family. A story that was told in our class was of a couple that early in their marriage. The wife assumed that the husband knew what he was doing with the earned money and never bothered to ask him about it. The husband, because he loved his wife, took her out to dinner often and bought her many things. After a while and a discussion of how he managed to do all of these things, they realized they were in deep debt. This couple was suffering because of a simple misunderstanding on how to take care of the money they had. There are many ways to avoid such a traumatic experience. One way to avoid this is to discuss the issue before the couple become husband and wife. By addressing this issue they can prepare before the act of putting their lives together. Another way to avoid this is to make a budget together as a couple and stick to it. By knowing how much spending money they have, they are able to know when to buy essential things and when they are able to buy not as important things. Through these two suggestions of how to take care of the money, we can see that in both example the couple is working together. Through that the couple can also grow in respect and love for each other as they work to make each other's life more pleasant.