honeymoon. It will cost you yourself. The Real Cost Too often people enter marriage with high expectations coupled with low awareness of what it involves. While most people entering marriage have heard the phrase “marriage requires sacrifice,” they have no idea what that sacrifice will entail. In a recent survey I took of over 1000 singles, three quarters of them agreed with the statement that marriage will require sacrifice, yet close to half of them believed marriage would also be “easy.” I don’t