by Amina Jackson

Created on: March 12, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2007

Should a relationship be built entirely on money? Of course not but sometimes the choice is not ours to make. Money is not something that we can rule out of our lives. Much as we hate, so many times money has decided our fate or chosen lives for us. Money has become us and is reigning on us with or without our will.

Whether or not the relationship is built on money or not the results might be the same. Sometimes money can be disastrous and other times it can be a savior. Either way the role money plays in a relationship is very significant. When money leaves a relationship, it can leave devastation, confusion, frustrations and even betrayals. A man or woman you married with money may turn out to be totally a different person without money and most of the times the marriage collapses even when money was not the reason for the marriage to begin with. It is usually inevitable not keep the same friends you had with money without money. When money kicks in a relationship, it kicks in with new style and standards. A man or you married without money may turn to be unfit with money. The thing that kept you together will fall apart leading to the downfall of a once happy marriage. There will be so many nice looking girls and guys throwing themselves to you. Very few people would keep that old beaten up Chevy when they can afford Cadillac and even those willing to do so at least will go test drives. The friend will certainly become unfit. You would wish to go to a very expensive restaurant or shop in expensive store but all they can afford is a McDonalds for restaurant and Wal-Mart for shopping. Anyway would you keep the old fading clothes when you can afford new ones with a better fragrance and fabric! Without money you are not really who you are and with money you forget who you really are. It begins with unfaithfulness then greed kicks in and before you even know it you are like those guys you hated.

Money is not an evil but if we let it decide who we are, it will destroy the very essence of who we are. Money in a relationship is like an umbrella. You need when it is raining and you need when it is too sunny.

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