One big mistake some people make is marrying out of compassion and not out of love.
Marriage is divine and is the most important stage of life. Marrying someone out of pity will never make your life as good as you would wish it to be.
Here are five reasons why you shouldn't marry out of pity:
1. You might eventually meet the person you are really interested in
It can be a huge challenge when you eventually meet someone you honestly feel love for, you care about and want to be with. Once this happens, you can never be happy with the one you married out of pity and you might end up cheating.
2. The love wouldn't be genuine.
Only genuine love sustains a marriage. Pity has nothing to do with a healthy marriage. Love comes from within and cannot be spearheaded by pity. This means marriages sealed out of pity never last.
3. The marriage will be less enjoyable
Marriage is beautiful when there is some spark. When there is no love in marriage, care and happiness will lack instead. According to psychologytoday.com, the marriage might seem okay for the first few months and then change gradually.
4. Regrets will storm your mind
Marrying someone out of pity might seem okay during the first few months or years. However, as time goes by, you come to realise that he or she wasn't the right one for you. What follows is pure regret in the long run.
5. You could get mistreated
What convinces you that your partner won't mistreat you owing to the fact that he or she married you out of compassion? You will realise later that either you have been trapped or you are getting abused just because there was really no true love that led to the marriage.