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To: Garth Tater

It’s just a guess, but you’re still hearing the phrase, “You’re not from around here, are ya?” quite a bit, aren’t you?


Nope. I found a church my small town (it’s a university town) where I have more in common with the members. I learned the hard way that one needs to be around their peers to really be able to be them self.

My attitude comes from experience and observation. Some ask me why I’m not angry with my ex but I am angry with the government. The reason is simple and twofold:
1. We all do bad things to others from time to time. We are all “disobedient children on the play ground”. And a woman that just wants to not be married any more is kinda like a pre-teen that thinks they want a sex change. That is, it’s dangerous and stupid, but when the government empowers their decision, the government becomes the problem. Which leads to number 2;
2. She clearly regrets it and it has just made her a bitter man hater. If she had stayed in the marriage her life would be better now by at least a couple orders of magnitude. I completely forgave her a long time ago, but she has become a dangerous person to me and our daughters.

As long as the government is empowering women to self destruct - and destroy their families - by putting the full power of the government and the government’s gun behind it, it is foolish for a man to marry a woman in the US. The odds of even the “right girl” having feelings of dissatisfaction in a marriage are ridiculously high. And when the kids reach their teenage years (that’s where ours were when she did this), the stress can be strong, and the temptation to just “get out” can be as well.

No-fault divorce makes getting married, for a man, one of the highest risk endeavors on the planet. Even a Christian man. Would you buy a $50,000 car with a one year warranty if the odds of it totally breaking down in 18 months was 40%? This is something along those lines. And, sadly, you don’t have a clue in the beginning if you got a bad one or not.

I will say this: My current wife and I were both 43 when we met. We knew what we were getting and it proved spot on. At 20, fuggetaboutit. It’s a complete crap shoot.


390 posted on 03/14/2018 4:21:44 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: robroys woman

Dude.

That was sublime.


393 posted on 03/14/2018 4:53:05 AM PDT by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: robroys woman
"As long as the government is empowering women to self destruct - and destroy their families - by putting the full power of the government and the government’s gun behind it, it is foolish for a man to marry a woman in the US."

So you've given up the fight? Life's never been easy around here but none of our ancestors ever just gave up. So please, feel free to advise our young of the dangers you see in the world, but DON'T advise them to give up - that's just not the way people around here do things.
398 posted on 03/14/2018 1:24:23 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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