If it's any news to anyone, I'm in law school. Didn't think that was news, so now that that's out of the way, I'm getting married in December.

I will be taking an Evidence class early this summer, hopefully volunteering at a local law firm, and working when I can. When school starts back, I will again be attending school full time and working when I can. My fiancee' is looking for a full-time job. When we marry in December, she will be making the most money between the two of us until I get out of law school. When I'm out, she never has to work again. I see nothing wrong with the proposition other than it's going to be a little tougher than it will be for most, but then, most people don't pursue post-graduate degrees. The amount of money you make doesn't make you "more" of a household head. Are men who make $22,000/yr. lesser household heads than others?

Better yet, are we, as Christians, restricted to marrying within our own class? That's what some people seem to be suggesting. If one godly man is an auto-mechanic and makes $25,000/yr. and he wants to marry a godly woman who is a pharmacist who makes $50,000/yr., some here appear to think that they should not be allowed to marry because the woman would make more and the man couldn't be the household head? Honestly, is Classism what Christians are suggesting we revert to?

As per the "wait" suggestion. I have waited. I have endured things you wouldn't stand to be done to you and I have come out better for it. I have waited for over 3 years for my wife and I will have waited nearly 4 by the time we are married. She has been terrified I would leave and I havn't budged. I will go into no further detail but we will wait no longer.

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)