Take it from the newlywed: I’m sure there are pros and cons to every decision we make, but often when we talk of marriage and family, we seem to put all the cons in the marriage/family column and all the pros in the other.  

At some point in life, the scales may shift, and having a family may begin to seem worth the trouble.  This point does not generally occur until at least age thirty, or so I would believe if I listened to some people I know.  Ahem.

Before I got married, I was told to consider what this commitment would cost me.  I’m not saying this was unwise advice.  I admit that keeping my marriage will cost me a lot, probably. 

Unfortunately, since time-travel technology has not yet become viable for the consumer market, I have no way of knowing the future; therefore, I have no means of conducting a cost-benefit analysis that factors all the variables.  There are many things I do not know.   

But the problem with the future is that it is no more accessible to single people.  I didn’t know what remaining single would have cost me, either.

I’m no good at driving the DeLorean, but I have messed up enough to know better than to pass up a good man who I love, who loves me.

Just a thought.