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Why men are withdrawing from courtship.
Dalrock ^ | Dalrock

Posted on 11/16/2013 5:37:57 AM PST by ClaytonP

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1 posted on 11/16/2013 5:37:57 AM PST by ClaytonP
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To: ClaytonP

Men bearing the costs of courtship is bunk.

Your average courting-age woman spends more on clothes and makeup and hair salons and nail salons, etc., etc.—let alone the time costs of putting it all together—than a man does in picking up a few checks.


2 posted on 11/16/2013 5:42:09 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ClaytonP

Somebody ping Sandra Fluke. Maybe she can offer some insight.


3 posted on 11/16/2013 5:42:28 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ClaytonP

Two words, family court.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 5:43:45 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Texas Eagle

U R funny. But then Y buy the cow...


5 posted on 11/16/2013 5:44:11 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

lol just try and find a 20 something virgin


6 posted on 11/16/2013 5:49:39 AM PST by jneesy (rough seas make skillful sailors)
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To: ClaytonP

I know the truth, but speaking it would get me flamed off FR again.


7 posted on 11/16/2013 5:50:23 AM PST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: ClaytonP

I can tell you this. As a single man in his 30’s.........I don’t have a GD clue what women want. Every new one I meet is a brand new adventure in psychology.

They’ll say they want X, Y, and, Z. You provide that. And they then proceed to p!ss all over you for doing so. So much for being a “nice guy”.....that and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee.

I love the concept but to this day I’ve yet to meet one that I couldn’t live without. Somebody throw me a line here....


8 posted on 11/16/2013 5:52:10 AM PST by FAA
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To: 9YearLurker
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With all due respect, you're completely wrong ...


$ 20,00 spent over two years courting (for marriage) an otherwise "nice" Christian woman (never married, in her late 40s) ...


it was great sometimes, and emotionally brutal the rest ... a 50/50 deal ...


unfortunately, I was geniunely in love with her (she's unfortunately the romantic love of my life) ...


i sincerely wish that I'd never met her ...



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9 posted on 11/16/2013 5:53:10 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Swine Piss be upon the Sodmite Obama, and his Child-Rapist False Prophet Mohammed)
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To: ClaytonP
I'll stick with being single and having peace and serenity in my living space.

/johnny

10 posted on 11/16/2013 5:53:22 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 9YearLurker

So women only pretty themselves up when they are courting? I just spend $130 for a meal. So what, my salon visit cost $200 - you owe me an additional $70 before we proceed.


11 posted on 11/16/2013 5:54:40 AM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: jneesy
just try and find a 20 something virgin

Yup...when my oldest son was dating in his early 20's....I had a running bet with him

I would buy their dinner if he could FIND a girl to date that did not already have a child...

Never had to pay...

12 posted on 11/16/2013 5:56:10 AM PST by Popman
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To: ClaytonP

Legalizing prostitution would help both men and women. Men wouldn’t have to “court for sex” like the author of this piece puts it. Many will disagree with me I know... Flame suite on.


13 posted on 11/16/2013 5:56:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 9YearLurker

You think women would not by clothes and makeup if it wasn’t for courting?

I think women buy clothes and makeup to impress other women - not to so men will court them. If they wanted to buy things to encourage courting, it would be golf clubs.


14 posted on 11/16/2013 5:57:46 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: 9YearLurker

Apples and Oranges.

I know a lot of women who spend a lot of money on cloths and hairdressers, etc. They are all married.

You are assuming that women only get dressed up to hook a man. The women I know would live in a shopping mall or beauty parlor if it were possible. They do it for themselves. They enjoy getting dressed up.


15 posted on 11/16/2013 5:57:51 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: FAA

Go gay... < /sarc >


16 posted on 11/16/2013 5:58:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

What were you buying her?


17 posted on 11/16/2013 5:59:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Hey - I think I know you.

(JK- there are lots of those stories.)


18 posted on 11/16/2013 6:00:23 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: central_va

“Go gay... < /sarc >”

Funny:)


19 posted on 11/16/2013 6:01:57 AM PST by FAA
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To: 9YearLurker

It’s unlikely that a woman buys a new outfit or get her hair done everytime she goes on a date, and she certainly doesn’t, as she becomes more serious about a guy and starts to feel less inclined to make an impression. However, on every date the guy pays for, he has to,put out new money as there is no way for him to recycle money as a woman might be able to re-use an outfit.

Over the long haul, in a traditional relationship, the guy probably does pay more.


20 posted on 11/16/2013 6:03:34 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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