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Marriage which is honorable and instituted by God right from inception is based on love. And even in everything, love should be above, as commanded by God in the scripture that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. So, love is over all. And when talking about marriage which is an institution of God, love should be the foundation and the centerpiece of it. Marriage which is meant for two individuals mostly a matured man and woman is one of those important thing that ine must do it life and no religion is against marriage as we all believe in God.
So, when talking about the prenup agreement by couples before getting married, to me it's a welcome development and this is because of no other thing, but because everything will be well defined and spelt out. Though, love should supersede over all other things in marriage, but to me, if things were well spelled out before marriage, no one would pass his or her boundary in the marriage proper as all those things would have been spelled out and known to the both parties. Though, no one knows what the future holds for them in marriage, but it's in my own belief that we human cannot predict the future whether good or bad. But anyhow it comes, there must be an agreement before going down the isle.
What is this prenuptial agreement in the right context of it? It's the contract or agreement entered into by couples before getting married to each other and this is based on the financial or property right of each partner in the case of divorce or death. So, like I said earlier, it's most important to enter into the prenuptial agreement than not to and this is because of many reasons which I will like to spell out.
One thing that's very sure is that before getting married to a man or a woman, there must be an existing love, but one thing that I know for sure is that, the existing love that brought both husband and wife together might not be able to sustain both in marriage and like people used to say that love is blind, well that's some people's opinion, but to me, love is not blind, but may seems blind when there's pretence and this pretence is what people mistook for blindness when it comes to love. So, love alone cannot sustain marriage, there's other components that sustain marriage. These are: trust, faithfulness, perseverance and so on. When all these are absent in marriage, then the marriage will not last.
So, in the view of this, entering into the prenuptial contract should not be joked with, even when love exist in marriage and this is because of the unforeseen circumstances that may come up in the course of the marriage. This agreement is not only about divorce alone, death is also included and when talking about this, it has really affected so many people and has even wrecked them to nothing. The women most especially are victim of this. In most cases, the women were being robbed of what they have suffered together with their husbands to build or get by the husband family. Even the children that are supposed to be a beneficiary of their father's money and property were being denied atimes and just because of this, if there's prenuptial agreement, it will save those that are supposed to be a beneficiary from being robbed of their right by the said families. Even, the divorced aspect is something not to be overlooked. A partner may not be truthful in his dealings with his or her spouse and such a person that lead the other partner to divorce should not also go scot free and take it all. He or she should also take a share of the spoil.
Though, this agreement or contract has it own disadvantages as well which are even more grievous than the advantages, such disadvantages include: unnecessary divorce from both partners, most especially the one that seems to profit more from the contract. Also, if there's no existing love between the love or let me say, if there love has went sour, any of the partner that stands to be the one to benefit from his or her spouse death may kill the other person. But despite of these disadvantages, I will still prefer couples entering into this agreement before getting married. As this will serve as a precaution to anything that happens in the marriage.
One thing I need to say here is that, thank God it's an agreement and it will be well read before any of the parties sign, so, if the terms and conditions of the agreement is not okay by any of the parties, then they have right not to sign it and let love rule their marriage to the extent through which can sustain them to or even quit and move ahead, but, if they see reasons to the signing of the agreement, they should go ahead and sign it for the betterment of their homes.
Now, the bottom line is that, there must be agreements before going into marriage and thiese agreements maybe prenuptial or not are there to safeguard the marriage. Though love is the foundation of marriage, but it cannot sustain a marriage alone as their are other things that work with love to uphold a marriage. Trust and being faithful are those things that helps marriage to last. So, to safeguard a marriage going into agreement is the best belt.
This is my entry to the week 150, Edition 03 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learner community.
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