I should have paid more attention. Before my first wedding, my future FIL offered $10,000 if she and I would elope and skip the expensive wedding. She wouldn't hear of it and I think it cost him north of $15,000 and that was back in 1973. That marriage held till the kids were out of school and had come apart for some of the same reasons that the offer from my first FIL were spurned.
I am in a much better place now with a woman who values things that are also important to me.
I am in a much better place now with a woman who values things that are also important to me.