MARRIAGE IS A CAREER.

             

 

MARRIAGE AS A CAREER:
Career as defined by the Oxford English dictionary is"a course of professional life or employment which affords opportunity for progress or advancement in the world.
According to this definition marriage certainly qualifies as a career.

Marriage is a serious business. Believe me,if people bears this in mind there would be fewer dissappointng marriages because no one can enter such sacred relationship but those bent on serious business.
If there is one career that demands prayerful consideration and careful preparation it is marriage.
The nature of man's career in marriage is primarily the permanent union for procreation and education of children, provision of home,support of his wife and offspring, constant vigilant care for the spiritual and temporal welfare of his household.
While the nature of a woman's career in marriage is basically bearing and education of children, insoluble union, homemaking and house keeping.
These as a matter of fact are not matters of choice but obligation.
A married man no matter how powerful he is as to rule an empire, or master of science, write immortal tommes and yet fails to fulfill the primary ends of his marriage career is a failure.
A married woman may have series of records for her contributions to medical and scientific researches, or works of art in the greatest museum or art galleries in the world,or had secured so many positions in the Parliament but fails in the primary ends of her marriage career is indeed a failure.
Her first duty is to be a wife, mother and a homemaker.
It is indeed becsuse of our failure to realise that marriage is a career that brought about series of tragedies and countless broken homes. People accept their jobs and businesses as career but fails to include marriage as the top-flight career.
If teaching is a high career, then where can you get the first and most important school if not in the home, and the most influential teachers, all mothers and fathers.
Nursing is a career but a mother's untaught hands can often heal and nurse with such an incomparable skill that can bring a weak life back to strength which a registered nurse or physician can not do.
If entertaining an audience from the stage, screan or over the radio is seen as a career, then creating joy and happiness in a home is equally a career.
Diplomacy is a career, yes, but where is diplomacy so necessary and so frequently required as in marriage? Indeed the keeping of a husband or wife for life demands more consummate diplomacy than anything else.
Having established the fact that marriage is a top-flight career, i will conclusively say that it requires some rules to govern it's success as in other careers.

Franca Igwilo.