Should marriage be infatuated or money driven?

Good morning lovely members of this great read.cash community, it is of no excuse that your night rests was met with the most expected blessings as indeed was mine too.

If that is so with you, then I'd say happy you as the good Lord I pray will continue to ensure his protection of our dear lives and grant us all our very heart desires till the end of time.

I just came back from today's early morning mass of the Catholic faith in which I left home around 5am this morning in order to be able to attend the meeting mass and I know for sure that all those who are of the same Catholic faith as myself will understand better what every mass means to an average Catholic and more especially, the early morning mass that seeks to accord one with the enough time to be back and handle other home assignments in readiness for tomorrow's work and vice versa.

With that in mind, I'd like us to go back to the topic of discussion being; " should marriage be an infatuations or money driven?"

I will appreciate it a lot if we flash our minds back in the days at the garden of Eden where God instituted the first marriage between our first parents Adam and Eve, what was it you saw that transpired there other than the fact that God brought the woman(Eve) to the man(Adam) after he(God) had initially made the man(Adam) to fall into a deep sleep of which a rib out of the too many ribs of his ribs was used in making the woman(Eve).

Haven seen the woman brought to him, Adam exclaimed, "at last, this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh!" How happy Adam was to have seen the wife of his youth. At least, God never made them man and wife at their old ages did he? No you would answer.

This same pattern have been followed all day long eventhough they've been mordernization of the institution called marriage where a man is to fulfill all the marriage rites before he's allowed to take his wife home where they shall both from that day on, end their lives from their youthful years to their old days until death do them part.

Did you take note of that above expression? "...end their lives from their youthful years to their old days until death do them part". Yes, that's my very point of emphacy this morning that has warranted the making of this very post.

Now, going by the pictures below, does it satisfy that purpose for which that above expression was made; " their youthful years...until death do them part"? I guess yes, I guess no but I feel the answers to the above asked question is quite rhetoric hence, I feel the right answers I presume lies very much in our hearts.

Can you all see that? Yes, that's my friend whose name is Juliet. She lives in Dublin in Ireland a country in the United kingdom and here is her wedding anniversary pictures with the man who is her husband at her back and she is just 32years of age and married to that man Mr cantwell who is 76 years old and 44 years older than she. Hmmn!

When she sent in the pictures and updated them on my WhatsApp page and other places as well, tongues have been raging, waggling and raining hails and brim stones in a surprise as to how possible it was for a young lady of just 32 years of age and a resident in Dublin Ireland had laid claims to be happily married to Mr cantwell, a man in his late 70's if not that such marriage was either infatuated or money driven.

Just take a look at what is happening above, what did you see in a sharp contrast, a wedding anniversary of another couple (Mr Samson and his wife chizzy) in Dubai ridding happily on a camel as against that of Juliet and her husband Mr cantwell in Dublin Ireland and the most interesting thing about these two couples is that they are very well known to each other so much to the extent that they most of the time pay each other a visit from their different countries of hosts and the fact that Juliet and chizzy were childhood friends before they travelled out of the country Nigeria to their different locations given their same age, has really drawn a massive line of questioning as to why Juliet agreed marrying a man who is in his late 70's and barely assists himself going by his very old age?

Does it also satisfy the fact that that above expression that was earlier made of a couple starting up their marriage journey in their very youthful ages and then end it up in their very old ages when only death shall be their departing rights? Be the judge yourself here.

Well, for all I know, I think lot could be said to have forced such an action on the part of Juliet and if everything is to be believed, then we may not be wrong viewing it from the angle that such driving force for which she agreed to such a marriage that has a lot of age brackets in between could well have been either infatuated or money driven that's for sure and very much correct.

Pls get me right here, as I'm by no means judging in between the both of them for I well obey that biblical injunction that simply makes it clear that, " what God has joined together, let no man put asunder". I guess that may well be it but then, it is still not out of place when one believes that the quest for money making could as well have played it's ugly cards there.

Take it or leave it, all was not well and in as much as that remains the case, then it as well remains to be seen at the time when the real truth behind this kind of an out of balance in a marriage formation is yet to be revealed.

Image source: my phone gallery.