Marriage Contracts and Debt - How compactible

Recently a newly married couple had a raw deal with their benefactor. The youngman in question had borrowed an interest yeilding sum of money from a friend of his who equally doubled as a moneylender, to finance his wedding ceremony. As it turned out, he couldn’t be able to pay back the said sum and the accrued interest as agreed which lead to an unplesant scene of violence between him and his benefactor.

I was a witness to the ugly scene of violence between the two men. I equally heard the unpleasant exchanges of words between them. I observed them bleeding from the injuries they’d inflicted on themselves. It was an eye-sore to see with dismay a crowd of people gathered to watch and overheard this two men irresponsibly wash their inner linings out there in the public-square, when they could have settled their differences with mutual understanding.

However, what seems quite strange and unanswered is the question of the compactibleness or reasonableness of one going into debt in order to host his marriage ceremony of his heartthrob. What really could be the sound logics that would have caused an intending couple to mortegage their married life on the altar of debt and the possible ugly outcome in the case of insolvency.

I quite knew too well that a good number of people would be quick to condem the actions of the youngman for taking such decision at the onset of their married life. But how far reaching is the effects of the other pressures surrending his decision?

This is a youngman in his early thirties. Presumably, all his mates are married exercpt him. Possibly too he’d found a girl that he so much adored but was too afraid to lose her to another man. After observing the intense pressures the youg lady had been put through by her parents, friends, relations and inevitably other prospecting readi-made suitors. Could she wait any further for too long whle her time whiles away.

Well, nomatter how one takes a bite at this issue, one thing is quite certain: there’s no alternative to freedom and happiness. Nomatter how financialy biting a situation could be, mortegaging one’s married life and hapiness is nothing but unacceptable and a risky venture. It is a threat to the successful existence and happy outcome of the marriage itself.