Marriage is a scam. I went to the supermarket, and 99% of married women over 40 looked like shit
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Posted 2/9/2010 7:48 am
Married men (most of them anyways) bear the responsibility of providing food, housing, and education for an entire family, hich can be quite an onerous task these days. Then they are expected to spend their free time indulging their wife and kids recreational pursuits.
The men are expected to bear the lions share of the burden, and they are also expected to drop everything to accommodate their familys whims and never speak up about it. They are the ones expected to change.
The only expectation that matters is your wife's. If you marry a woman who expects these things and you do not, or can not provide them, then yes, you fucked up.
Protip: Marry a woman with realistic expectations.
Im not judging, and if your wife doesnt expect you to support her or any kids, fine. But to be fair, that really isnt much deeper than a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with a piece of paper. You are only "married" in the loosest sense, in that you could both walk away tomorrow and there wouldnt be any mess (like a house, kids, or any of the other stuff most married people deal with) to clean up.
It would be quite a leap to reach that conclusion from what I posted.
Marriage in the sense that humans have always understood it revolves around a family structure (kids) and communal property. If you dont have kids and dont own property than you really arent all that different than a dating couple who has been together for a long time.
Most of us consider marriage in the traditional sense to revolve around communal property and children.
It is just a piece of paper in your situation, and in the social you are no more tied to your wife than a boyfriend is tied to is girlfriend. You could walk away tomorrow with zero complications other than who gets to keep the Klingon uniform.
If that suits you thats fine, but its not really what this discussion is about.
Which is exactly why you should never marry. Marriage only serves to invite courts, lawyers, therapists and the government into your relationship. If you're already in a great relationship, you don't need them telling you what to do.
Posted 2/9/2010 8:59 am
Bullshit. Take my neighbor for example .. she's 42, but she runs 20 miles a week and she keeps her diet in check. She looks damn good for her age and it cost next to nothing to maintain herself.
No matter her initial expectations, the power given to a woman over a man by the family court system means that she'd have to be a saint not to take advantage of it.
Not sure how many women out there are saints, but advising men to find and marry saints isn't very practical advice for the population at large
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