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The Three Divorce Magnets: Knowing the pitfalls that can derail a marriage will help you avoid them
National Review ^ | 06/17/2017 | Diane Medved

Posted on 06/17/2017 6:57:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: nickcarraway
Wasn’t she just as crazy as when they got married?

Of course not. Before marriage she was wild, exciting, and unpredictable.

61 posted on 06/18/2017 5:20:37 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SeekAndFind

My first wife used to punch me often, but never cheated on me. The second wife never hit me, but cheated on me all the time. I have learned from experience that I way too often made poor choices in women, so I have QUIT.


62 posted on 06/18/2017 5:43:48 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: miss marmelstein

Then by all means, take my wife please!! I take my wife everywhere. The problem is, she keeps finding her way back.

My wife says to me the other day, “I want to go somewhere I have never been before.” “Ok,” I said, “what about the kitchen?”


63 posted on 06/18/2017 5:45:44 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: basalt

Separate bath and bedrooms have saved our marriage!


64 posted on 06/18/2017 6:31:12 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sibyl nods


65 posted on 06/18/2017 6:41:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The biggest: she thinks that she can (1) clean him out in divorce, and from there (2) lead a happy independent life where lots of charming, exciting men will want her (as long as no-strings sex is offered).

The second part becomes a fantasy after she either passes 40 or she gains enough weight that she no longer has an hourglass figure (if she ever did).

What is increasingly happening these days is women spend their hot 20's jumping from bed to bed, then hit 30 and decide they need to find somebody to marry them before their expiration date. Naturally, the kind of guy willing to actually marry them is not as exciting as the kind of guys who bedded them in her 20's, she becomes increasingly unhappy and resentful as she thinks about her old boyfriends and how her husband negatively compares against them.

One part of the solution would be to encourage women to get married in their early 20's, when their "marriage market value" is at peak, and they are more likely to snag a high-value guy.

The other part of the solution would be to change divorce laws so that they do not provide an incentive for the woman to divorce.

66 posted on 06/18/2017 6:51:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
It’s interesting they identify pornography as a major problem. And they do so without moralizing or preaching. It’s just a fact. Porn is seriously damaging our culture. It is not harmless.

Don't forget women's porn (alias "romance novels") which women endlessly consume, and which feed the female fantasy of some hot barbarian/pirate captain/aristocrat/billionaire coming into their lives and sweeping them off their feet.

Spending her days in such fantasies is just as damaging to her ability to be satisfied in a real relationship with a real guy, as men's porn is.

67 posted on 06/18/2017 6:55:52 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: FlipWilson

Flip tells Henny Youngman jokes?!


68 posted on 06/18/2017 6:57:23 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: allendale
Society benefits greatly and prospers when children are raised and nurtured in a traditional family structure. Yet such a beneficial social convention has always been somewhat contrary to Darwinian law and the species need to procreate in an optimal manner. Men have a biological dictate to impregnate as many women as possible and women are attracted to the men who would appear in overt and subtle ways to be the best impregnator in the herd. Nevertheless when social conventions such as monogamy and family are abandoned and epicurean hedonism is embraced,, society decays quickly. Witness modern neo pagan Western decadence

Western civilization is built around restrictions to the above. The social contract had been that the "alpha male" was allowed to select ONE high-quality woman to be his wife, leaving the rest of the women to the rest of the men.

Civilization happens when common men can have confidence that if they work hard, they can attract a woman of their own, who will have sex with them and bear their children. Once common men lose hope of having that future, they lose the incentive to work hard enough to sustain the civilization, which collapses back into barbarism.

69 posted on 06/18/2017 7:03:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

People who lie about stuff before you get married to them. Both my exes lied about some pretty substantial things. Like their financial situation or their serious mental illness.


70 posted on 06/18/2017 7:10:25 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mom4melody

Should have said prince.

Why should he care? Because he vowed to care in every situation. Maybe she is depressed? Care. You as her friend and h= as her husband. Please care.


71 posted on 06/18/2017 7:13:16 AM PDT by amihow (.size)
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To: Trillian

Put God at the center of your family, don’t abuse each other, don’t commit adultery, don’t be selfish, show love and affection for each other and always put your family first.


You can do all of that, but if you’re the only one doing it, it’s not a marriage. And I am not even talking about adultery. In neither of my marriages was anyone cheating.


72 posted on 06/18/2017 7:13:23 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mom4melody

Should have said prince. Why should he care? Because he vowed to care in every situation. ?aybe she is depressed? Care. You as her friend and h= as her husband.


73 posted on 06/18/2017 7:13:50 AM PDT by amihow (.size)
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To: Lockbar

I’m not quitting with men, I’m just quitting with marriage, joining lives. I am the kind of person to stay way too long and try everything in my heart and soul to make something work that isn’t going to because the other side won’t put forth even an 8th of that effort. In marriage, I’m Atlas and I have shrugged.


74 posted on 06/18/2017 7:17:59 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: PapaBear3625

So are you arguing that when a male is frustrated that his seed is not resulting in offspring, barbarism ensues? There very well be a protean detrimental subtle but very real, psychological effect on men that despite successful copulation, due to modern birth control and widespread abortion, there are no offspring to be seen. Or simply put Darwinian law dictates that a woman’s body is not hers alone but has a role beyond her perceived self interest vital to procreation and the well being of the species. If she positions herself to refuse, prevents conception or willfully aborts, she violates Darwinian law. The death knell of the West was when men ceded their dominance, accepted “women’s rights” and the birthrate dropped to non sustainable levels. The future has always belonged to the fertile.


75 posted on 06/18/2017 7:21:15 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Trillian

It’s usually the problem is not about what you’re not getting out of a marriage, the problem is usually what YOU are not putting IN to a marriage.

If both can appreciate this they will last.


76 posted on 06/18/2017 7:22:53 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: miss marmelstein

The three magnets of divorce v. the three rings of marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring, the suffering.


77 posted on 06/18/2017 7:27:32 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: allendale
So are you arguing that when a male is frustrated that his seed is not resulting in offspring, barbarism ensues?

A man who desires companionship can hang out with his male buddies.

A man who desires sex can rent more cheaply (over the long run) than buying.

Marriage is for the man who desires heirs of his own genetics.

Traditionally, women who wanted children had to marry, because only a husband of her own could provide her with the stable home to raise children in. Welfare and government-mandated child support payments now allows a woman to have her children without the bother of sharing her home with a husband.

78 posted on 06/18/2017 7:33:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

BTW,today is Father’s day. Not the favorite holiday of feminists and the Left.


79 posted on 06/18/2017 7:43:35 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: FlipWilson

Amazing how no one on this thread admits their culpability in a marriage gone sour! Not one. It’s always the other party.


80 posted on 06/18/2017 7:59:53 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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