Should you combine finances with your spouse / significant other?
I personally think so, but this is a fairly divisive issue. Continue Reading
Marriage
The job market is killing the marriage market
Last March, there were some studies out indicating that 15 percent of currently-single people may never get married. Since then, we’ve seen new data that singles make up half the U.S. population (first time ever, apparently), and now there’s this: we… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: what songs MUST you play at a wedding reception?
Little bit softer now … and a little bit softer now … Continue Reading
A wedding in America currently costs, on average, about $29,548
Via Quartz, which is in turn via a 2013 survey done by the good folks over at The Knot, we now have an idea that the average cost of an American wedding is about $29,548. In the 1930s, a wedding cost $392. Before you… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: if your parents’ marriage is great (bad), will similar elements of your marriage be great (bad)?
Start with a baseline assumption of two parents that stayed together and had a relatively happy marriage — or, if you want, two parents that ultimately separated but maintained a functional, happy environment for the children involved. In either of… Continue Reading
30 percent of couples still meet through friends, and 15 percent of people may never get married
Because How I Met Your Mother is ending tomorrow night, The Wall Street Journal decided to do a story about how people actually met your mother (i.e. their significant other), and it turns out that 30 percent of people still meet their S.O. through friends. (I’m in… Continue Reading