Calculating costs and benefits is not just for your bank account. It can help your marriage too
They say that marriage is a “socio-economic” relationship. In other words it has an emotional/social aspect to it and it also has a business aspect to it. Normally we think of the business part as having to do with how finances are arranged how housework is negotiated and how child care is divided — that is how the responsibilities of family life are distributed between husband and wife. However the truth is that even the relationship part of the marriage can be looked at through the economic lens.
Love Is in the Details
Marital love is built or broken in the daily grind of family life. The “what” of marriage (the finances housework and child care for example) is far less important than the “how” of marriage. How are tasks divided and how does that feel to each member of the couple? How do husband and wife communicate about the tasks? How do they deal with differences of opinion and conflicts? How well do they cooperate with each other? When caring and concern dominate the interactions love and harmony is fostered. If not not.
Let’s look at the following scenario:
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