Week 3 Blog Prompt

In your opinion, is money important in relationships?

In my opinion, I feel that money is not necessarily important in relationships. To me, money in life is definitely not everything. There much more things in this Earth that are worth even more than just money. For example, there are many things that cannot be compared with money like friendship, love and trust ect. We cannot use money to buy friendship, neither can we use money to buy love or trust. Hence, money is definitely not everything. Hence after saying all these, money is clearly not significant in relationships. This is because one must look more in to the actual relationship and into the characters of each other. Values are also a very important thing one must see in your spouse. Hence, there are much more than money in a relationship.

Consider the "transactional" element observed in the relationships between the couples. Do you think there is an upward trend of relationships and marriages valuing money over other qualities?

It is not that obvious now as people get more advanced and more educated, money in marriages and relationships are not that important. However, there are also still some marriages where a dowry is demanded although not as common nowadays.
Overall, I feel that in Singapore, I do not really see the "transactional" element in the relationships between the couples nowadays. I think this might be because of the change in mindset of people nowadays as they are not so money concern as Singapore is a developed country now. However, still, there are some people who are just greedy and wants to marry a rich person for his or her wealth but there are not so many rich people so the number of couples that value money more may not be that much.