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Getting the 60 Percent Married - Renewing marriage in Middle America
National Review Online ^ | January 3, 2013 | An NRO Interview

Posted on 01/03/2013 6:58:49 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

“If the nation takes the right cultural and policy steps, we can renew marriage in Middle America.”

That’s code for big government. No thanks. Sell that drek someplace else.


21 posted on 01/04/2013 5:21:18 AM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: poobear

“That’s pretty depressing Bob. I have a teenage daughter who will attend college next year. She doesn’t share the “clean a guy out” point of view. But I’m sure a few of her friends do.
Because she’s a “brick house” my worry is some knucklehead will come along and treat her like dirt!”

I feel for you. My advise would be for her to demand a high price from a guy before she gets serious. If he wants to live with her - fine, give her a ring and a (public) wedding date, and then only live together if it’s the only practical option (i.e., long-distance relationship otherwise) - otherwise just get married sooner. Lots of guys will take a pass, but there are still a few that will play ball. The key is to not waste her 20s with a guy who’s more than happy to live with her, but has no desire to go further - because when she hits her 30s, things will get bad (i.e., all the decent guys gone and she won’t be as much of catch then).

By the way, thanks for understanding where I was coming from - some people on this site are convinced that I just say what I say out of hatred towards women - far from it or I’d still be single (and unhappy), but it is due to hatred of feminism.


22 posted on 01/04/2013 8:37:06 PM PST by BobL
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Bob I understand all too well. As a woman growing up in the 80’s I didn’t want to get married or have children because the men were such freaks and all my friends who were married were miserable. Most were divorced like you described. Suddenly in my mid thirties I “fell in love” with this man I’ll be married to for 22 years next month. Our daughter was a “surprise”.

BTW, ain’t gonna be no living together with our Southern daughter. I’ll see to that as long as I’m alive. ;D! The boyz that come around here see a baseball bat and a machete at our front door. They “get the message”! No worries with your opinions. Everyone is entitled you know? For good reason most of the time. poobear


23 posted on 01/04/2013 11:11:51 PM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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Wow, you did luck out. Obviously I’m generalizing. In fact my own (immigrant, though) wife was over 30 when we first met. Anyway, congrats, and best of luck.


24 posted on 01/05/2013 6:16:26 AM PST by BobL
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