UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20236, 22 April 1929, Page 14

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

Sir. —Young couples enter lightly into marriage with no immediate intention of having their own home or a family, and still they hope to love and respect each other, with two of the most beautiful ideals in the world indefinitely postponed. A man who asks a woman to marry him without having a home or at least the furnishings of a rented home or flat has a colossal cheek. A woman who has been earning anything over 55s a week and has not saved anything against a possible future home will never make a good wife. If a couple are not prepared to make sacrifices for a future home they are better not married, and these sacrifices apply to a pleasure, to a point of view, etc., etc. If a young couple think they can live in a boarding house or furnished flat and have nothing but each other and their separato work to interest them, and be quite happy, they have another think due. Finally, I would say that unhappy marriages are fifty-fifty: most boys and girls in these days of equal rights and equal education have an even chance. ; . The average education in this country is very high, and yet young couples get married on about £lO and think they can make a success of marriage, and perhaps they have a dim idea of a home, children and all that those mean. Hopeful Bachelor.