That is what marriage boils down to. You can call it the tripod of marital bliss.
Marriage is actually the safest school to learn how to communicate. How to listen and how to share your thoughts. When communication breaks down, sex and finances cannot stand for much longer.
In fact, the reason children have been said to be an important part of marriage is that they help to improve communication. You cannot afford to be a bad example of communication in front of your children, because they reflect pretty quickly, everything you show them. So if you communicate with respect, they learn same, pretty quickly.
Sex is also important. No matter how well you communicate, if your marriage lacks sex, you’re just deceiving each other. You have learnt the art of communication, yet derive no value from it. Quality of sex must follow quality of communication. If they are going in opposite directions, someone is being insincere.
Many assume that a signal to a healthy sex life in a couple is in the birthing of children, no, nothing is farther from the truth. The signal for a healthy sex life is in the quality of communication between couples.
Finance reduces the friction that might come from 3rd parties in your relationship. If you depend on each other and can live independent of each other, you are interdependent. And interdependence is bliss. Interdependence is the most powerful shield against 3rd parties. Kahlil Gibran put it succinctly when he said “Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.”
– Osasu Oviawe