Compatibility is an important ingredient in any relationship, including marriage. At the same time, opposites are supposed to attract. How do we reconcile these seemingly contradictory notions, especially in marriage?<\/p>\n
I recently read that, of all types of compatibility, compatibility in financial priorities is vital for marital success. That is, the views of a husband and wife on financial priorities must be quite similar, if a marriage is expected to last long. It appears that a marriage can survive incompatibilities on several grounds as long as the husband and wife are compatible on their financial priorities.<\/p>\n
In the developed world where basic necessities have been taken for granted for over a century, marital relationships faced decisions of financial priorities at a higher level. This probably led to growing incompatibility of financial priorities between husbands and wives e.g. brand new furniture for the home versus college education for a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contrast this with developing countries like India where fundamental financial priority for virtually everyone –\u00a0 especially those born in and around the Independence in 1947 and a couple of decades afterwards –\u00a0has been the fulfillment of basic necessities. Since most people couldn’t afford to have any higher level of financial priorities, compatibility in financial priorities between a husband and wife has been automatically assured, which virtually guaranteed longevity of a typical Indian marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compatibility is an important ingredient in any relationship, including marriage. At the same time, opposites are supposed to attract. How do we reconcile these seemingly contradictory notions, especially in marriage?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}