Marriages don't last. Do not go through with a wedding at any price. Go through with a wedding only if you see that it can succeed. Sometimes you realize after you are engaged that this wedding was not meant to be. Unfortunately, some people continue because they already paid for a hall, they made other expenses, and they feel that it would be shame to cancel the wedding after so much money was invested.
That is a big mistake.
Better to lose a lot of money than to go through with a wedding to the wrong spouse. It would be a shame to have a wedding and to break up afterwards. The breakup will leave more scars than the loss of money. Besides, after the couple breaks up, you can say that you threw away the money anyhow.
Thus, if there is a problem, consider the money as having been lost. Since the money is already lost, then you may as well break. You will not gain the money by staying together. You will just make an second mistake, which will leave many scars.
It is better to break up and have only one problem, than to solve one problem by creating a second one.
When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man
I want my children
to spend
their weekends with?
-Rita Rudner
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