Frankly speaking, it is pretty tough for anyone in the showbiz/media industry to manage a marriage. This is so for a couple of reasons, and I will highlight the ones I am quite familiar with:
1.
The job takes all of your mental, physical, and emotional energy. By the time you get home (if you can go home), there is almost nothing left of you but a strong desire for some silence and a lot of rest. For people in the talking side of the media industry, you have talked all day, and all you have left is a desire for some quiet.
The emotional and mental fatigue that happens to you repeatedly is why many in the industry are given to substance/alcohol abuse.
2.
The job does not reward you as much as it tasks you. So, for all of your man hours, you still struggle financially, and this has a great tendency of leading to frustration in the home.
If you are not emotionally available and you still do not have money, problems go boku oh!
3.
Your job exposes you to so much of the opposite gender. From spending many hours with co-workers of the opposite sex, to the long list of admirers who notice you because of your job, distrust easily creeps into your marriage, and sadly, we undermine the implications that a little distrust can have.
The tendency that the unmarried ones will marry wrong is another risk entirely. Where you have a vast population of admirers to pick from, the tendency that you marry wrong is tripled.
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The three points above may seem very simple, but they are the most dominant reasons many media industry people are "not good at marriage," as Frank Edoho opined.
The ones who can stay responsible and involved at home often have to bend over backwards, ensuring against all odds that they remain human, despite the many challenges that the job throws at them.
There is a lot to unpack in this industry, but only the people directly affected can tell their stories.
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AT.
Frankly speaking, it is pretty tough for anyone in the showbiz/media industry to manage a marriage. This is so for a couple of reasons, and I will highlight the ones I am quite familiar with:
1.
The job takes all of your mental, physical, and emotional energy. By the time you get home (if you can go home), there is almost nothing left of you but a strong desire for some silence and a lot of rest. For people in the talking side of the media industry, you have talked all day, and all you have left is a desire for some quiet.
The emotional and mental fatigue that happens to you repeatedly is why many in the industry are given to substance/alcohol abuse.
2.
The job does not reward you as much as it tasks you. So, for all of your man hours, you still struggle financially, and this has a great tendency of leading to frustration in the home.
If you are not emotionally available and you still do not have money, problems go boku oh!
3.
Your job exposes you to so much of the opposite gender. From spending many hours with co-workers of the opposite sex, to the long list of admirers who notice you because of your job, distrust easily creeps into your marriage, and sadly, we undermine the implications that a little distrust can have.
The tendency that the unmarried ones will marry wrong is another risk entirely. Where you have a vast population of admirers to pick from, the tendency that you marry wrong is tripled.
__________________
The three points above may seem very simple, but they are the most dominant reasons many media industry people are "not good at marriage," as Frank Edoho opined.
The ones who can stay responsible and involved at home often have to bend over backwards, ensuring against all odds that they remain human, despite the many challenges that the job throws at them.
There is a lot to unpack in this industry, but only the people directly affected can tell their stories.
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AT.