Marriage, just don't

+1 my wife to be ( 3 months) makes 4X what I do. She provides security and I provide the windfalls. Works perfectly. The key for marriage is for both people to be REASONABLE which VERY few people actually are.




Quote from taclander:

ROFL, what a laugh. My wife actually makes more than I do, and she provides the benefit package also. You know, the health insurance, plus she has 2 retirement programs, on top of SS. I probably could make more, but I have accepted part time trading to take care of kids and my Dad. Marriage works well for me financially.
I throw in a couple hours a day in the futures markets and do well enough to pay for my kids college educations, and live off what the wife makes. When I get back to full time I anticipate cranking up the savings rate for retirement.
Nothing pisses me off more than stupid generalizations. Hell, I have been debating all winter whether go and work on some golf lessons, and maybe work local tournaments to make some more money.
I guess it all depends on the person you marry or the person you are.
 
just remember the word "reasonable".
maybe 5-10 years from now you might recall this as you decide if its gonna be the desert eagle 50 or a pipe bomb or moltov cocktail or feeding her to sharks............
I know the odds are in my favor of being right, sad but true.
if i'm wrong...well....your a lucky guy
 
Quote from turkeyneck:

Married men have lower testosterone because they no longer need to "hunt".

lol, go on Craigslist and you find huge number of MARRIED men looking Casual Sex. The few "women" looking for Casual are mostly porn sites and no real people.
 
Quote from olias:

I would argue that we don't 'need' any of that. I'm not just arguing semantics with you. The implication is that we need all those things to be happy and/or fulfilled.....It's great to want all those things, but the minute you tell yourself you need someone else in your life to be happy/fulfilled....lookout. You have a destructive mindset that will lead to ruin.

In this culture, neither women or men need marriage - though life may be more satisfying with a committed partner. Commitment doesn't always mean marriage, and marriage is no commitment except for the money part.
 
Quote from hippie:

In this culture, neither women or men need marriage - though life may be more satisfying with a committed partner. Commitment doesn't always mean marriage, and marriage is no commitment except for the money part.

Actually, the kids part. It's quite difficult trying to raise a bunch of brats on your own. If you want a committed partner, get a dog. A dog will literally take a bullet for you.
 
Quote from Roark:

Actually, the kids part. It's quite difficult trying to raise a bunch of brats on your own. If you want a committed partner, get a dog. A dog will literally take a bullet for you.

Kids part means more court hassle when you get a divorce. Who needs child custody battles.

Instead of the word committed, "stable" may be a more appropriate word here. Marriage supposed to provide some stability for kids and family, doesn't always happens.
 
Quote from ralph00:

Teddy Forstman, 70 years old, never married, now sharing spit w/Padma Lakshmi ...

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Great gig if you can get your hands on a billion bucks.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

You didnt add the positives though. What if your broker told you that they had an investment that doubled your yearly income(2 income household) and/or gave you a full time nanny, chef, and housemaid and free sex for the rest of your life and it cost you nothing to get started only a committment in front of friends and family to a woman you already love and want to be with.

Would you invest in that?

Good argument...but don't people have less sex when they get married?
 
My hairdresser is Russian. I remember talking to her about the culture in Russia and I asked her, how the Russian women are? She's like they are tough and always in charge.

I then said how do they compare to American women, she laughs and said... by a landslide American women take the cake on that one, they are the toughest and always in charge.

I feel in america, that we are losing the role of the man and the role of the woman. Women now do everything that men can do, they work, they negotiate, they lead, they're in congress... and I think that's great.... but in a marriage, it's just a path for disaster. Having 2 strong headed people form a union just isn't going to work.

Take all look at the major corporations, they are all headed by a CEO, one guy to make the FINAL decision, not 2, ONE! Women now imo are the men the in relationship. They generally have more power than the man. Biologically this just does not work. In relationships Men need to lead, be the decisionmakers (of course taking the woman's decision into account) but they need to be MEN. In America, this just is not the case.

I've spent a lot of time in Central / South american and find that the women there are much much more softer, know their role in a marriage, and let the man be the man and lead (and more importantly, want the man to be the man). They want you to provide, to lead, to be a figure of authority, while doing their part in the home, clean, cook, take care of you, and the kids. All in all, it's much easier to succede in this scenario vs the macho american woman
 
If the US elected a woman president and she met Ahmanut from Iran, do you think she would wear a hijab or wear attire like she was the leader of the free world?
 
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