For Richer & Richer

Last night,  my husband and I caught some replays of the wedding of the century.  When it came to the part when Kate Middleton was repeating after the priest her vows……” for richer, for poorer….”   My husband said there’s no way that they will become poor,  so it should only be “for richer and richer“.

Do you think they have PRE – NUP ?

In 1983, When my boyfriend (now my husband) and I were  making preparations for our wedding,  I told him I did not want to be poor.  I told him I wanted to make sure that my life would be the same or even better.   He said “pang-richer ka lang pala,  hindi pang poorer”.

Before I be judged,  this is my simple rationalization of things then and now:

We’re  not rich,  we’re  not poor either.  I belonged to a middle class family.   (Sometimes we dropped to lower middle class when business of my parents was bad) .  My parents worked so hard to send us to a good school.  I was expected to do better in my life.  Not worst than what my parents achieved,  at least equal or better.    With a husband,  that would be  ” two heads are better than one”. There is no reason for the 2 of us to disappoint our parents for not being able to uplift our lives.  There is no justification for 2 people with better education and exposure to experience poverty.  Unfair to my parents who sacrificed their lives to give me a decent  life.   Unfair to ourselves too.