From: Sandra Loosemore 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: Choices to be made in Financial Planning
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:22:49 -0500
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"Don"  writes:

> One of the greatest financial dangers any young person faces is the 
> possibility of divorce, since about 50% of marriages end that way, and the 
> aftermath almost always means going back to square one financially. So one 
> area with a big payoff would be "getting it right the first time" in matters 
> of courtship and matrimony. I have not seen this discussed much in personal 
> finance books. But it is a huge cloud hovering over every good financial 
> strategy.

My observation is that marriages sometimes fail no matter what the
intentions of the participants at the outset.  How many people get
married already convinced that they're making a big mistake?  :-P
Instead, they all believe that they already *are* going to "get it
right the first time" -- even if, in fact, they wind up becoming a
divorce statistic a few years down the road.

Perhaps more practical financial advice for young folks contemplating
marriage is that it's far better to sock money away for a future home
purchase or retirement, than to go into debt so you can spend $50K or
more on a wedding that approaches the scale of Princess Diana's.

-Sandra the cynic