Marriage counselor, Theresa Wiafe, has asserted that about 60% of young people getting married are not sure why they want to marry.
According to her, they provide excuses during the premarital counselling on why they’re going to get married, a worrying feature of recent marriages.
She explained that the most dominant reason for marriage has been the fact that their parents want them to be responsible.
However, she explained that marriage cannot make anyone responsible if they are not and therefore should not be the reason why one settles.
Theresa Wiafe was speaking on Accra-based Joy FM.
“Sometimes at premarital counselling, the first question you ask is, Why do you want to get married? 60% perhaps of the young couple who are seated before you before they get married are not sure why they want to marry.
So they come up with all the reasons you are coming up with. Well, I have a job, I am doing well, and I have my own place. I am this, I am that, and then my parents think that I should get married to be responsible. So they think that if you’re a young man and you’re not married, you are not responsible, and so it takes marriage to be responsible, which is not the truth,” she stated.
