Most women imagine their wedding day from the time they are young girls. Let’s face it, there is no need to hide, most girls and why not, some boys even, as they grow older, think that the ultimate purpose of life is getting married in order to find internal and social stability. This status quo may be wrong, it might drive us to a fake happiness but this is not our subject for now. Our era carries a lot of social and psychological ‘diseases’. Financial crisis has managed to enter our lives in such a profound way that it has brought waves of change in many, many areas of everyday life.
Is marriage one of these areas? It is proven, by analyzing social phenomena, that it is. We used to say that marriage kills love. Now, things have changed a little bit and love is not in danger anymore; marriage is. As a consequence of the existing financial crisis, a great and yet strange feat has been achieved; love has been strengthened because people now understand that it’s the ultimate gift. It seems to be the only thing that matters as the materialistic way of life is starting to collapse. But when the conversation comes to marriage things change.
First of all, it is extremely difficult to even imagine getting married or having a child, with the constant fluctuations of the economy. Survival, the most ancient instinct has now been awakened more than ever. Also, marriage, as a way of life, has been fully degraded throughout the years and our generation is obligated conform to this new order of things.
Beyond all this, consciousness is starting to become brighter and brighter and we see young people believing that they wouldn’t like to create a family and bring a child into this world of chaos. If you ask me, it is absolutely normal. Unfortunately, some of us are bitten by insecurity, which comes much easier than money.
But even so, there are still people who take that risk and get married, fighting all the odds together. What happens there? Does crisis wins? According to social analysts, this international financial crisis, in the beginning, managed to decrease divorces. Two years later though, studies are reporting and increase in divorces.
Why is this happening? Have we become little soldiers? Or we are like fish, following their bait, unable to understand the danger?
Married couples have to face a great number more problems than in the past -they have to over come the money issues and concentrate on building a really strong bond; because it is the only way to get through the war against them. Though, I think that only true love can fight the odds and help people to live happily ever after.
It is true that crisis has gained ground against love and marriage by making our lives difficult. But there is still hope. Let’s take a lesson from our grandparents, who had less than we do, or even nothing in comparison to us, but yet still believed in one thing: when something breaks, we fix it; we don’t throw it away.
Maybe the financial crisis has won this battle, but the war has not ended. We can, we deserve to and we will maintain our dreams and our goals. A happy marriage can live through these dark times if we enlighten our partner with love.
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