Marriage

[slipknotpsycho]

Women support marriage for obvious reasons. They have every reason to benefit from it, whether it goes good OR bad. Its more risky for the man, and most divorces are requested by the wife. They get bored with you and wring you dry for all your money. Im not against it, but if you have a penis, I suggest seriously thinking it over.

one word....

prenup

[Innominate]

Dont let your shitty love life ruin it for everyone else. Im engaged and i can't wait until I get married. Its a grand way to tell the other person you love them.

Thanks for being openminded, I wish you two luck.

[texas grass]

i just got married its its great

its the people why marriage fails

[Innominate]

that's all i was saying... i have no problem with someone who doesn't want to get married hope you didn't take my post as trying to shoot down your opinion or anything.... they were just some really strong statements and getting married is already scarry enough as it is...

Your right, stating in plain English that "marriage doesn't work" goes over the edge on my part, my apologies. Marriage has proven to be successful for many people. Unfortunately these many people are becoming a minority, especially as increasingly growing numbers of couples that marry on behalf of military benefits for example.

[Innominate]

its the people why marriage fails

Of course.

[Psycho4Bud]

I read someplace that marriage certificates with expiration dates were being discussed somewhere in the United States. Might be a good idea--and a possible alternative to divorce. The expiration date of the marriage certificate comes up and a couple who doesn't want to recommit simply doesn't renew the license and goes their separate ways. Makes sense to me.

Divorce court lawyers and womens groups would NEVER let something like this pass. Imagine it.....no more alimony or being stripped of half your assets while her lawyer takes your other half.

After going through two divorces I just call it Clean Sweep.......like the show. Anything and everything that you really haven't used or need is taken away in one swoop! Ya get rid of all that unwanted junk and some junk ya did want.

Including her, it can all be replaced.:thumbsup:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[stinkyattic]

Women support marriage for obvious reasons. They have every reason to benefit from it, whether it goes good OR bad. Its more risky for the man, and most divorces are requested by the wife. They get bored with you and wring you dry for all your money. Im not against it, but if you have a penis, I suggest seriously thinking it over.

Really....

A woman who makes a significantly higher salary than her spouse, and who has invested more into the couple's mutual assets, may perfectly well stand to lose assets if her husband can prove to the courts the same things that she would have to have proved were she to demand a share of HIS assets were the financial situations reversed as they nearly always were in the past.

Leaving the extremely touchy issue of child support out of the equation, and looking strictly at alimony and legal right to any real estate, alimony is (in my state at least) RARELY granted and even then only in cases of a very long marriage and proof that the husband in some way impeded his wife from pursuing a career of her own.

Right to real estate is also different than you seem to be implying. Either the house will be ordered sold and the profits split, or one party will be forced to buy out the other. Legally, mutual real estate holdings of UNMARRIED couples put the parties in a much more dangerous financial situation should the relationship fail. Marriage is in this case a positive, since the rights of each party are very clearly defined.

Any woman who marries strictly with the intention of taking her husband for a ride later on is a fool to do so.

Finally, saying that 'most divorces are requested by the wife' as part of an argument against marriage if you're a man is misleading. You include in that sweeping generalization cases where a woman would file for divorce citing abuse... by your statement, the implication is that this is entirely her doing. I think not.

I find your post to be rather misogynistic and not a little ignorant.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Thanks Stinky. With this iffy keyboard of mine, I'm glad you saved me the typing.

I'm on my 4th marriage. In every single divorce I've come out on the fuzzy end of the lollipop. I want to meet some of these women who take half, and found out what I did wrong. I didn't get diddlysquat from any of my ex-husbands, but they wound up with new cars and nice homes.

Statistics show that a woman's standard of living decreases following divorce, while a man's increases by around 73%.

[el_fantistico]

Marriage certainly works for some people and there are others I would recommend NEVER get married!

My wife and I have a very good partnership, it isnâ??t perfect, but itâ??s better than good more often than not. We are together for a variety of reasons: love, companionship, economics, and a genuine interest in making the otherâ??s life more happy.

We donâ??t agree on everythingâ?¦ but that helps us see each others point of view.

I do think however that some people shouldnâ??t get married (and even more people shouldnâ??t have kidsâ?¦ but thatâ??s another thread!!) and I also believe that some relationships have shelf life that will eventually expire.

Does that mean we should abolish marriage? No, if for no other reason that itâ??s one of the only day(s) in peopleâ??s lives that they are 100% focused on and itâ??s a hell of a partyâ?¦ Ceremony is also an important aspect of human interaction that is slowly becoming extinctâ?¦ marriage maintains this, even for just a day.

I could go onâ?¦ but I am so hungry right nowâ?¦.

El Fantistico :smokin:

[Psycho4Bud]

Thanks Stinky. With this iffy keyboard of mine, I'm glad you saved me the typing.

I'm on my 4th marriage. In every single divorce I've come out on the fuzzy end of the lollipop. I want to meet some of these women who take half, and found out what I did wrong. I didn't get diddlysquat from any of my ex-husbands, but they wound up with new cars and nice homes.

Statistics show that a woman's standard of living decreases following divorce, while a man's increases by around 73%.

E-mail is in my signature........I'll refer ya to the ex of your choice. I'd actually talk to the second.......she got two years of alimony also.

Have a good one!:jointsmile: