On marriage: Let’s call the whole thing off

http://www.msnbc.msn.com ^ | June 22, 2009 | By Sandra Tsing Loh

[Maelstorm]

I don't know why people who fail feel this need to generalize their failure to others. Just because they fail suddenly means the foundations of the world must be changed to make it all right. This degree of selfish narcissism is horrible and sends the kind of message that provides a horrible example for young woman and men. Marriage isn't always easy but it is well worth the work. It has a lot to do about attitude and an aweful lot of the angst in marriage is caused by external forces and a popular culture that sends messages of a norm that is openly hostile to marriage unless of course it is to benefit homosexuals. The broken home is extremely destructive especially to children and to have such whiny reasons given as to why not to continue on disgusts me and illustrates how soft and self absorbed a culture this has become for some. If the arguments are sound then why should anyone start a small business which by some estimates "eighty percent of all new small businesses fail in their first five years". If a person wrote such a silly article telling people that starting a small business wasn't worth the effort or pain and everyone should just give up on the idea our economic growth would grind to a halt as illustrated in the statistics below.

"Office of Advocacy funded data and research shows that small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all firms, they create more than half of the private non-farm gross domestic product, and they create 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs."

As for marriage we know that the children of broken homes are far more likely to end up in prison with broken lives and a compromised future. The cost foisted on society by those who do not marry is larger than the cost of tobacco use, the cost of obesity, the cost of so many things that many in this country see essential to combat for the public good. Married women are much less likely to be abused, contract stds, and have a generally longer lifespan. Marriage is not antiquated it is absolutely essential and much like the creation of small businesses if marriage ceases to exist so does our culture and most likely our civilization. While women with careers like this selfish woman may be ok getting divorce at the age of 40 something it is the young woman and men in their 20s that will suffer the consequences of the generalizing of personal failure to the masses.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****I don’t generally even enjoy men;****

Most liberal women don't.

[Dr. Ursus]

This was either post earlier this week or I’ve seen the word bewailed twice!

[buccaneer81]

What a scummy, narcissistic b%#ch.

[marktwain]

Sounds like she had a mid-life crisis and started sleeping around. Then she “had” to tell her husband about it. I suspect this marriage has been going south for a very long time.

[KC_Conspirator]

You have great points and I totally agree. Why generalize ones failure? How about an article from a woman who has a successful marraige and call it "On single life: Lets just skip it". This article is the height of liberal stupidity.

[sauropod]

I agree. This was an obnoxious article. Total self-absorption.

[rbg81]

My husband is a good man, though he did travel 20 weeks a year for work

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Translation: my husband broke his a$$ for 20 years to keep me in the lifestyle to which I am accustomed. And, in return, I stabbed him (and my kids) in the back.

[twister881]

Tsing Loh, effete har-lot
Comin’ for to wreck the home
Tsing Loh, effete har-lot
Nothin’ but some air in her dome!

[stylin_geek]

The whole article is written so she can justify her unfaithfulness by claiming that a lifelong commitment to marriage is unreasonable, especially in this day and age.

[djf]

After about her third metaphor, I’d divorce her as well...

[RoadTest]

What’s wrong with this picture?

Shamans
Alcohol
Fantasy life

The wine in itself might be O.K. (or not) but the combination turned out deadly.

[Maelstorm]

How can they. They have been nursed on the anger of feminism with men as their competitors or simple a necessary evil. I’ve never heard a man say such a stupid thing as “I don’t generally enjoy women”. Even homosexual men enjoy women. So the not enjoying men theme is unnatural and counterproductive. That it is received as if it is completely natural troubles me in the same way someone saying “I don’t generally enjoy black people” and make as little sense. I certainly don’t enjoy women with this kind of attitude, they are interesting to talk for a bit and they usually have a huge amount of emotional baggage. They keep up a steel wall of defensiveness but they are still a woman at their core and that is what they fear. They set false absolutes and use phony assumptions about men to shield themselves from loving one or even agreeing with one.

[Mygirlsmom]

Sandra, honey, you and your “friends” are a mess. I don’t know which I have more of for you—pity or disdain.

[jimbo123]

100-1 she went lesbo.

[freedumb2003]

Who in the world would have an affair with this?

Typical feminazi. Between her "thinking" and her looks, no wonder her husband stayed away half the year.

[GAB-1955]

groan

[Ted Grant]

And somewhere, her ex husband had the best night’s sleep he has had in 20 years. The promise of the sweet release of divorce now at least releases him from a life with this women, and opens the possibility that he can find a good woman to be with.

[Ted Grant]

Yerah, I agree. If I was married to her, given this article, I would have left her first.