organizing of the economic activities of the couple is mainly organized by Efi. The decision is taken by both of them but the process is done usually by Efi. The economic obligations that Tasos has, are generally all the bills. So, he has to pay all the bills like the electricity, telephone, gas, supermarket, and for the maintenance of the car and the motorbike. On the other hand Efis economic obligations are the payments of loans, checks and credit cards. Among all these they are also helping each other in their work too. What I mean is that Tasos is helping Efi in the insurance company and she is helping him in the caf. This is happening because sometimes the overload of work that they have is a lot, so they need the help of each other. As we understand they have divided the various tasks among them equally.If we closely observe Efi and Tasos marriage we will see that they have major differences from other marriages and especially marriages that have taken place many years ago. The differences exist not only in the interacting within the house but also in the controlling of their economic activities. The major differences were starting first of all from the marriage. The way that people were getting married was different, as I told you before it was more traditional. Furthermore what was widely spread and performed was the sheet, which was a way of proving and revealing some things basically for the bride, and that thing is her virginity. This ritual was performed before a lot in this part of Greece, but on this case even before the marriage because I was then working at the caf, I was teasing Tasos about the sheet and he was making fun of it too, saying things like that he is going to poor red paint in order to paint the sheet and prove his wifes virginity. Another thing that is the major difference between Tasos marriage and the older ones was the dowry. Tasos did not take any dowry, and from what I have observed in th...
