TRENDING: Is Marriage An Achievement?

My best friend said achievement must not be measured in career only. Having and raising your kids successfully is an achievement. Keeping your marriage happy and scandal free is an achievement. Marriage is fulfillment but you can achieve so much within than union.

It's a beautiful thing that if well harnessed, you will be spurred to make the sky your stepping stone. So many lives will not take shape till marriage happens to them, it has a way of building lives. Two better than one is a huge note from God... Yes while one can chase one thousand, two can chase ten thousands.

These are some of the passages that confirm the beauty and power of marriage. So sincerely speaking achievement must not be limited only to career or innovation etc. To many the greatest step forward in life is their marriage and to them marriage is indeed a huge achievement

Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Mana have been married for five years, and rumours have it that they are about to split. They had a prenuptial agreement that Wissam will pay Janet half a billion dollars if they remain married for at least 5-years before split.

Clearly, there's something in for the couple in the marriage. They both have mutual benefits of being married to each other. You can't really tell them that their 5-year marriage isn't an achievement. Is marriage an achievement?

Well, I think the answer to this is relative. As usual, I will use myself as an example. I have a mental picture of the type of man I want to marry, and the type of life I want to be living at/by 40, hopefully as a married woman.
If I get that type of man, and I get to live the type of marital life I dream for myself, you can't really walk up to me and tell me my marriage is not an achievement.

However, if I get married to a man only to realize that I'm not happy with him, and I'm not being able to live my dreams just by the virtue of being married to him, then I canNOT regard such a marriage as an achievement.

Whether or not marriage is an achievement is not something that can be said at a short run, or without first achieving an expected end. People get married to US citizens for the sole reason of getting a US green card. If such is your desire in a marriage and you get it, then such marriage can be said to be an achievement with respect to you getting what you want.

The question "is marriage an achievement" is ambiguous, and the answer differs with individuals, their perceptions, and what they aim to get out of such marital union. I've got a few friends who NEVER want to be married.

Clearly, this set of people cannot consider marriage an achievement, except there's something in there for them besides the thrill of getting married. You cannot possibly tell my mum that her marriage of 35-years isn't an achievement. Her husband made her.

She is who she is today because her husband put in extra efforts to get her up there. I won't give more details. I once said that if I get married to someone HALF my Dad, I would be maritally fulfilled. And yes, if I get married to someone like my Dad, I would consider it a greater achievement than a PhD.

Personally, whether or not marriage will be an achievement to me will be determined by who I get married to, how he makes me feel, and how much of my dreams I'm able to live with him.
People marry for different reasons and aims. If you achieve such aim either at the long or short term, then marriage might be an achievement to you.