Yes. I feel that money is very important. The reason is, for a relationship to work, the couple actually has to work out problems in the relationship. Money is always a big problem. Buying a house, a car, raising children, all need money and sacrifice from the couple. If a couple cannot fend for themselves financially, it is actually very hard for them to be together. Whilst people say only true love is needed, I think that is very idealistic. For example, Portia could make Bassanio comfortably wealthy. He may or may not truly love her, but their relationship will work. Money allows for greater tolerance. This year, the Straits Times published an article about couples and their financial preferences. It reported that couples no longer see the need to have only a joint account. A couple even said each of them have their own account and they manage their own finances. We can see that couples view financial independence highly also. Their money is as important as their love. As the cost of living in Singapore rises, this issue of money would only get more important. I see an upward trend of relationships and marriages valuing money over other qualities. That is why wives fight over their husband’s inheritance when he dies.
Yes, I do agree that money has become the main criteria of starting the relationship. Our very society has twisted and distorted the true meaning of love. I strongly believe that our world we are living in has shifted our priorities, from love, to money. Indeed, money is essential to sustain a relationship. But, perhaps we are all to narrow-minded to think that with money, a relationship will work out. I feel that we should go back to putting love as our main priority. After all, relationship consists of love, if it really involves money only, isn't a couple relationship similar to a bank and his customer's relationship?
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I agree to an extent. Money is not the most important, but is still important. True, that money is required for everything in a relationship. It can be stepping stones to a successful marriage. But what is love, when all is gold? Love, is still the most fundamental thing for relationship to work.
ReplyDeleteDavid Lu 2o304
Money is important to everyone due to it's ability to buy you things that are able to make you happy like cars and houses. But to put money in the equation of love and say that money is important for a relationship would be wrong because how can love be sustained by money when love is supposed to sustain you. WHen people are in love, the relationship between them would not require money to be sutained as the both of them would place love first and money second but a couple that places money first and love second would have a unsustainable relationship with lots of quarrels and troubles, just look at all the celebrities.
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I must agree as relationships mostly revolve around money. You simply can't survive without money these days. How about other factors like mutual understanding and love? Without such foundations for a relationship, the marriage would most likely be short-lived.
ReplyDeleteStanford Kong 2O309
Yes i agree with you that money is important and and there is an upward trend in the number of relationships and marriages valuing money over love.Wee should not just marry their money but also because of that particular person also for their characters.
ReplyDeleteI think that this post was a bit rushed, eh?. I do not not think that the part about couple's financial independence is totally related to the question, which actually asks about the importance of money in the building of a relationship. I also disagree to your point on the relationship of Portia and Bassanio. What if one day Portia becomes broke? Since Bassanio only covets for her wealth without any love,do you think that the relationship can still be sustained?
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