After finding a partner who makes your heart beat faster, and brings joy to every aspect of your life with their presence you might see yourself fantasizing about living together and taking your relationship to the next level. You are thinking in the right direction as marriage brings various individual and collective benefits. So if you’re a romantic person by nature, you would have had ideas about being married to someone, and been captivated by the idea of living as a husband or wife. Whether you may have experienced marriage through interaction with a couple, seen it on TV shows explaining different aspects of married life, or acquired knowledge of the relationship through your favorite books, it is undoubtedly one of those observances destined to become a part of your life one day.
Financial rewards of selecting the right partner
To realize why you should get married, you should understand that marriage is a partnership. Along with including another person to share your belongings, you are also permitting them, to support you through the uncertainties you will encounter together. So this introduces us to the financial benefits of getting married including a shared income, bank accounts, property, and assets. By dividing each other’s assets, and property and splitting your monthly income with your partner, you can streamline your finances and ensure greater stability.
Spouses also help us to carry our burdens, and provide support that is not available in this world. “It is not good that man should be alone, I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18) so it is obvious that men and women have been created in pairs by God and that the woman is there to share the obstacles and problems that a man faces in life. A key financial benefit of marriage is the inheritance of your working partner’s assets including your home, car, bank accounts, and investment accounts in the event of their sudden death.
Marrying to fulfill your love needs and turn your lifelong dreams into reality
The second major reason to consider getting married is to seal the relationship with the individual that you love the most in this world and to be able to cherish a physical bond with your lover. Marriage permits a legal union with a physical, emotional, and spiritual bonding between two lovers that strengthens over time. It is the ultimate expression of love to propose to someone and hear them say “I do”, in response to your offer of lifetime.
By starting a family together (through marriage) you gradually develop a structure for collaboration, providing children a feeling of safety and belonging, and a system of emotional support to fall back on when they face difficulties, over their lifetimes. After becoming one family two partners can plan for their future together and work towards achieving their goals with each other’s support creating a collective synergy that helps both individuals to achieve long-term success.
Marriage as an act of religious devotion
The marriage vows in Christianity “In the name of God, I, ___, take you, ___, to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until parted by death” and those in Islam “Bride: I, ___, offer you myself in marriage following the instructions of the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet, peace and blessing be upon him. I pledge, in honesty and with sincerity, to be for you an obedient and faithful wife. Groom: I pledge, in honesty and sincerity, to be a faithful and helpful husband for you.” both stress the importance of being helpful to each other and accepting each other as they are or might be in the future.
The third important purpose of marriage is to fulfill a spiritual obligation and to affirm a relationship with God by carrying out an action performed by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). For those Muslims seeking to draw closer to Allah, following in the footsteps of his messenger is a crucial beginning on the road to salvation. Marriage vows are performed as a sacred agreement, between God and the couple being married, marking the creation of a new family unit. If you can find a partner with the same religious beliefs as yours and share a physical chemistry with that person, you should know that it is time to follow your destiny and create a family with them. Most people today plan their future families by discussing what they will name a boy or a girl and even how they would like to raise their kids.
Getting married to create a partnership of a lifetime that outlasts other relationships
The fourth purpose of marriage, in your life, is to form a lifelong bond with another individual who stays with you as you grow older and parents and close friends move out of your life. It is important to have a partner who can be with you, and appreciate you for who you are, especially when life gets lonely. Marriage provides you with a new identity in society, that of the head of a family, and helps you to grow out of your old family and relations. By being attached to a single member of the opposite gender you can easily avoid a trust deficit between yourselves and also enter into a safe relationship where both partners can feel unhesitant to share intimate details.
The role of marriage in creating feelings of mutual respect and selflessness by serving the family
The final reason to get married is to learn to be responsible and to develop the habit of respecting another person who is important to you. Being responsible for an entire household is quite a hectic activity and both husband and wife share duties between themselves based on their job status and skills. Mutual respect is essential for a marriage to prosper so couples end up substituting their blind love for the other with a sense of appreciation and gratitude for having their partner with them. The daily tasks (of a married person’s life) take priority in their lives, as they become mature and trustworthy in their new roles as husband and wife. By focusing their energies on this family, newlyweds feel a greater reward in the togetherness compared to their previously dull and secluded lives.
So, whether you are simply in love with someone and can’t stop thinking about them day and night and feel that your life is incomplete without their presence, or want to grow closer to the almighty, you should go ahead and start a new life with your better half by letting them know that you want to start a serious relationship. Even if you want to eliminate the loneliness in your life, or would like to be more responsible, marriage is the perfect way forward for you. If you are already attached to someone, it will be easier to embark on a formal relationship with your partner rather than searching for a new person to start a family with. As everyone has a physical attraction to some preference of the opposite gender, it is quite obvious that this feeling is bound to dominate your choice for a partner and other aspects of their personality will be secondary.