MARRIAGE ECONOMICS

Marriage economics is a growing study which to some is only a virtual degree but to others it has come to stay. It is the application of economics theories to marriage in order to achieve maximum utility in marriage. Marriage is the joining of a man and a woman in legal and spiritual union till death bid them part.

At creation, God desires that man should:

Live a fruitful life

Live a multiplying life

Live a replenishing life

Live a subduing life

Live a life of dominion

Man will never achieve all these lofty goals without marriage.

The very first thought of marriage brings to fore our personal bias, subjectivity or perhaps objectivity towards the subject matter. The words of hearsay, families you have studied and everything you have learnt (the mistake you wish to avoid, the fantasy you crave for, and the holistic etceteras that follows) all guide us when making that single life changing decision.

The book word is also replete with many stories, advice and wisdom about marriage that reading through will take a man all his earthly life and yet maximizing the benefits of marriage is strange to many and if not all. It has been said that the best time to act is now and if you are thinking marriage, the best time to get married is now. Though eloping is not the best but planned marriage is worse. It also mean that the best time to prepare for today’s marriage is yesterday and the best time to prepare for tomorrow’s marriage is now because when your potential spouse arrives it is a little late to start preparing for marriage. Lateness is not bad if only we are able to maximize our bliss on earth and also attain a higher altitude in eternity through marriage.

A dangerous stand is it to live without utilizing the talents deposited in us at birth and worse if marriage does not help in achieving God’s goal in the partners’ lives.

Now we discuss in-love feeling, which is the bedrock of some marriages and it has been giving different names by different authors. The in-love feeling is expected to drop on average of two years which is pretty a long time that many got married and when they suddenly drop from their in-love mountain, some divorce to remarry going through motions of marriage and remarriage till they are wasted out of life and some just decide to wish away the ‘forever ever after’ dream they have always had. To those in the latter category, choosing to love is the best way to regain the ‘forever ever after’ dream that seem lost. The in-love feeling is good and also a sufficient condition in marriage analysis as long as we add reason to it and never allow it to determine the whole of our marital life.

Love is kind, patience, suffers long, boasts not, bears all things, hopes all things and never fails and when you fall in love you must also know that you have also decided to fall into patience, suffers long, boasts not, bears all things, hope all things and never fails in your relationship. Therefore if you are married, remain in love for the scriptures reads, is any married seek not divorce. Marriage economies use economics theories to substantiate the necessary and sufficient condition of marriage.

Marriage Economics has the following sub-units:

 

 

·      Historical definition of marriage

·      Religious definition of marriage

·      Societal definition of marriage

·      Application of mathematical theories to marriage

·      Application of financial theories to marriage

·      Application of Economic theories to marriage

·      Impact of social factors on (divorce rate, education, LGBT) on marriage

·      The dichotomy of monogamy, polygamy and polyandry

·      Demand and supply of marriage and equilibrium condition of marriage

·      The cost benefit analysis of marriage

THE YOUNG MAN THAT STRAY

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It was all rosy and sweet on a summer day. The street is full of pomp and pageantry, the evening is cool, the music is loud, the holiday is long and the seaside view is simply intoxication.  It was everything a break could be and much...

And then it happen, just like the historical king who was lazy to be leading a battle of her kingdom but got so energise in taking off the clothes of his trusted army’s wife; so also was this young man lazy in pursuing his conviction but busy in putting them down.

It started with a question why, then a comparative analysis between living a life with conviction and living a life without conviction.

It was supposed to just be a test of enjoyment without restraint. A little dilly-dally on the table of lasciviousness won’t be too bad after all these years of integrity but it became a life style. The taste was yummy and the marginal propensity to continue in lasciviousness was absolute one and like a baby that is so keen in unwrapping Santa’s gift; this young man continue in his downward spiral of lasciviousness. Everything was sweet but not without the soar taste. The remembrance of the days of conviction and the single decision to stray with its attending guilt kept flushing back to this man heart but like a powerless captive, he is bound by the hands of lasciviousness. The desire to return can’t be achieved because like a foreigner he does not know the path in the city. Now he wishes he never stray but like a typical youth that thinks he is losing out on the temporary enjoyment of this world, he went out but not without a cost. Days turn into month and months into year and yet the unwavering gatekeeper of lasciviousness has shut the door against this young man and will not allow him to go back to his conviction and live again his life of integrity.

 

Will this young man die in this land of lasciviousness or find a way back home?

Will he ever regain his integrity and live a righteous life again?

Will this perpetual rather perplexing lifestyle be overcome?

Will a higher force ever come to help this man against the gatekeepers?

Will?    Will?    Will?

Many countless questions and regrets on this man heart and he faces the future without any hope of returning home.

Will he ever return home?

Yes, because the Saviour gently waits and when He calls on Jesus, all things are possible.