I didn’t marry my Highschool Sweetheart. It took me 33 years to find mine.
Yesterday, we would have been dating for 4 years, if she didn’t tell me she has planned our Honeymoon already and paid the deposits, so we had to get married. We lived in different provinces, only saw each other twice a month, and had to learn how to talk to each other. Strange concept, to talk, but I believe that will someday make all the difference! Today, we have been married for 2 years, 10 months and 29 days. Exactly. To the minute.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my wife. Sometimes I think I love her too much (if that is even possible). But it is tough. It is tough sharing your life, that you lived as you pleased for 33 years, with someone else. And I am sure it is the same for her. (She found me a bit sooner, but still…)
I plan to stay married to her. I really do not want to go through this process again. Being alone, finding someone who is not right, finding the next person, adjusting, falling in love, deciding, settling down AGAIN. But, one has to be realistic about these things.
Especially if you look at the latest findings on marriages and divorces in South Africa for 2016 released by Stats SA recently ()
Your Estate Planning has to be updated after any major life event, to ensure your stuff is going where you want it to go. Especially if you have kids!
Remember to update your Last Will and Testament after any of the below events:
- Marriage
- Serious Relationship with a Domestic Partner
- Divorce
- A new Baby
- Stepchildren
- Death of a Spouse or Child
- A change of heart about Heirs
- Changing Guardians of your children
For more information, feel free to contact me on Michael.pfister@momentum.co.za or 072 4022 499