How To Know If You’ll Ever Get Married

Marriage was an invention.

The closest correlation to how little we understand about marriage is probably the stock market. Wealth is built on investments, and although few people understand the ins and outs of Wall Street, we rely on the financial industry to make us rich.

Similarly, marriage was invented to keep track of property and to grow wealth, yet most single adults are ignorant to the core principles of marriage. We are so misguided on what marriage really is, that few people accept that love and marriage have nothing to do with each other.

In her bestseller, ‘The State of Affairs’ , therapist Esther Perel writes: “I love you. Let’s get married. For most of history, those two sentences were never joined.”

There is so much misinformation about marriage, that even as it rapidly declines, most single adults have no idea what it takes to get married, or stay married. Statistically, it’s obvious that we don’t know what we are doing. If you’re single, and want to be married, you might find yourself at a loss to how the entire process works.

This isn’t too unlike finance. Most people admit that they’d like to have more money, but hardly know where to start when it comes to being rich. And statistically, most people aren’t rich.