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Why Having a Wedding Makes Sense
I’ve since found guidance to reframe how I think about money from Ramit Sethi, an entrepreneur who helps people with personal finances. He asks a great question: “What is your rich life?” The purpose of this question is to stop you from looking at money as an accountant and looking at it as something that might help you live your ideal life. Over t
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
There are so many wonderful benefits to committing to building a life with someone that are not knowable until you are in it.
Men often get this backward, thinking they need to figure out their life on their own before committing to someone because having a partner or family will be some sort of distraction or loss of productivity. But nothin... See more
Infinite Play • Known Costs, Unknowable Benefits
For instance, it’s precisely the fact that getting married forecloses the possibility of meeting someone else—someone who might genuinely have been a better marriage partner; who could ever say?—that makes marriage meaningful.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Modern people make the painfulness of marriage even greater than it has to be, because they crush it under the weight of their almost cosmically impossible expectations.