:P Also you mentioned this yesterday: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph.../ChristmasCake Apparently the old maid age is 25, which is absurd. But that's why they made Rorona a child in Meruru, is because she would have been in her 30s which is just... too old by Japanese standards I guess. That makes me sad
/Girths around on the couch and eats the food crumbs he finds collecting in his belly button. I'm feeling pretty intimate already.
Now your $25 bill to pay doesn't feel so big anymore does it :P Also, couples who exercise together are more intimate. Now you know why I've been forcing you to work out with me muahaha
I agree, it's a combination. There's nothing incredibly wrong with wanting to feel that way on your wedding day (as long as they don't only focus on that feeling and make sure their partner is included and matters), but I think in the pursuit of that they spend too much and then the relationship (perhaps because it's so young) can't handle the sudden financial burden. Especially if they also had an expensive honeymoon and/or bought a house as part of the whole process. They could suddenly be 300k in debt or more with very little principle paid down and some pretty tough monthly expenditures to meet. Plus it's hard to to continue to justify the costs after the fact. 20-30k dollars on a single day doesn't feel the same a year later as it did on that day. It starts to feel more foolish and frivolous, I would think at least.
That's true. I also think some of it is misplaced priorities. Meaning people (probably mostly women) who want that princess wedding day more than the marriage. They have their wedding day dreams, and they want to do it while they're young and beautiful, so they rush in to it with someone they might not be ready with so they can have their dream wedding. Meaning, the wedding is the important part and not the marriage I think the debt thing is a big part of it though
I'm not too surprised by that article. I think a lot of the stress in young marriages is started by the couple saddling themselves with a chunk o' debt. Taking that 20-30k and doing almost anything else with it in regards to their future would yield better results. 30k down on a house comes to mind. They were using a flat cut off rate though. Around 20 thousand. I'd be curious to see how much the divorce rate changed in relation to amount spent vs. collective annual income. 30k to one couple isn't the same as 30k to another.
And haha that dinosaur article :P
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=2501480 http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/living...xpenses-study/ Apparently the more you spend on a wedding (and engagement ring), the more likely it is to fail
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/jamie-varo...w-we-date-now/ I think this is a good article. It also mentions how I feel like people don't know what an actual relationship is, so they'll move on to the next one or dump someone over really stupid reasons and not work at relationships
