When I was young, I wanted to be married. After seeing what has happened to many of my married friends, I really don’t see much “up side.”
Divorced 8 years after 25 years of marriage ... I’d do it again, (even now). Hell, I’d even marry her again. (won’t ever happen, cause now I’m broke... wonder how that happened?)
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I got married at the age of 35, and only because I found the woman that I thought I never would (we’ve been married for 9 years now).
I joined the Navy at 18. I did that for 6 years. Then I went to college for 5 years to get an engineering degree. I had zero social life in the Navy because I was at sea A LOT. In college, I sure wasn’t stable. (Went to school full-time and worked half-time, and those jobs were crap.) I became an engineer at 30, met my wife at 33, married at 35.
One thing that I saw that really put me off marriage: my friends were all hen-pecked to death. At parties and dinner outings, all the women would talk about is how stupid and bumbling their husbands were. The guys were constantly interrupted by their wives when talking with, “Blah blah blah, can you talk about something besides engineering and sports? Nobody wants to hear that.” To hear the women talk they know everything, do everything, and keep everything running in spite of their bumbling idiot husbands. Yeah, all the husband does is bring in $120,000/year. The husband is nothing but an ATM machine and just another one of the kids at home.
I really believe that the marriage rate is indirectly proportional to the arrogance of women as a whole. My wife isn’t like that, she’s the notable exception in my circle of friends.