25 REASONS WHY MARRIAGE IS GOOD
1. You get to have someone to come home to and share company with
2. You get to have someone with whom you can have as much sexual pleasure as you both want
3. You get to have someone to look after and who looks after you
4. You get to walk with someone who is your best friend long term, at a time when even friendships don’t last
5. You get to build a future with someone who knows you as an adult. Our parents understand who were as children, and our spouse knows who we truly are as adults
6. You get to have someone to raise and guide the children with, collective effort
7. You get to have someone who won’t give up on you just because of an argument
8. You get to have someone who has your best interest at heart and looks out for you, warns you, corrects and challenges you to be better
9. You get to have someone who shares in your success, your sorrows, your struggles, your good and bad days
10. You get to have a companion. You are not alone, no loneliness. Someone to laugh with and open up to without feeling you are a bother or you are talking too much
11. You get to have someone you are intertwined with to be your strength when you are weak
12. You get to have a prayer partner who prays fervently because whatever affects you affects him/her
13. You get to have a dependable helper you can count on
14. You get to have someone to share responsibilities and roles with at home, lessening the weight
15. You get to have someone to flirt with and be naughty with without judgement
16. You get to have someone who has spent so much time with you that they understand you and can represent you, cover you and get you even without saying a word
17. You get to have someone who worries about you when you are not OK when an accident happens, when you are quiet or when you come home late
18. You get to have someone to pour your love to knowing that you are not wasting it because this is long term
19. You get to have someone who has given you authority to call on them, ask them for help or do things for you with no pay or demands; all because your spouse loves you and you do the same for your spouse
20. You get to have someone who will be a custodian of your secrets and memories for life instead of talking with persons A, B, and C… It is comforting to build with one
21. You get to have someone who teaches you things you never knew, only if you are willing to learn
22. You get to have someone to grow old with whose love has been tried and tested
23. You get to have someone who will continue with your vision and family in case you die
24. You get to have someone you loved and who loved you for life in your brief journey on earth
25, You get to have someone who helps you to fulfil your purpose and you two coming together means you can do more