Posted on 09/18/2005 3:05:48 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Over a casual dinner, Rachel Kaplan turned to her boyfriend and asked, "You're open for a prenup, right?"
Darren Waldohlz, 38, a partner in a successful speed-dating business, admits he was caught off guard. But he said he realized a prenuptial agreement would protect the house he owns, too.
"It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, a single mom from Fort Lauderdale, who has a sizable inheritance. "I have to protect myself and my daughter."
While men are still more likely to seek a prenup, "women are becoming a more dominant force," said attorney Alan Braverman, who has offices in Fort Lauderdale and Boynton Beach.
Experts attribute the change to women marrying later or more than once.
"It's not uncommon in today's world that women are entering marriages with assets and stock options," said matrimonial attorney Jacqueline Valdespino, in Coral Gables. "Now both sides have equal bargaining power."
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
If you are worth ANYTHING of significance and plan to get married, you absolutely have to have a prenup... unless you like watching lawyers get rich by extending the misery of an already miserable situation.
BRAVA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
The reason for state sponsored marriage is to give guarantees to all involved.
It ensures the woman that her husband will be legally obligated to care for her and her children.
But since some here think women no longer need be cared for and protected by men, that negates one reason to have marriage.
And since some here think DNA testing can assign responsibility, that negates another reason to have marriage.
Legal marriage also served to protect men from accusations of rape.
But since we have created a crime of rape within marriage, whe have negated that reason for marriage.
Marriage also helps to decide who inherits what, but we have wills to perform that function.
So you tell me why we should continue to get married?
According to your liberalized and sexual-revoltuionized beliefs, there are no practical reasons for the state to sponsor marriage any longer.
Don't bother with him, even other he-man wimmin-haters have to know he's an idjit.
I'm glad I know that not all guys on FR are paleolithic haters. Some of them even respect women. Heck, they might not sleep with a woman before offering her commitment!
re: Do only women have baggage.
No, of course not. But men are primarily concerned with the baggage on their potential mates. Women may or may not have concern with baggage on their potential mates.
Basically, I'm only concerned with women's emotional baggage because that's what I have to deal with.
An opposing perspective For your consideration....
Rakes? Cads?
I fear your unconcious bias is intefering with your objectivity.
Aw Jen.... There's so many good guys out there, I hope you find one of them...
And just to be sure, we'll kill any of the wrong kind that get close :~D
Oh. Dear. God.
No fear, I'd never settle for a cad. ;-)
Between my FR friends and my dad-and-bothers, I don't need to worry about accidentally marrying one either.
Actually, not so.
Beyond a certain age when her biological clock is running out of time, it would be unrealistic to expect someone to marry her.
And so she might become someone's paid mistress, for example.
lol....I wouldn't want to bet my life on that one dear
I know... but don't settle for a good liar either.
Honestly, the thing that freaks me out about these twits, is that they know better than to ~say~ any of this to women in real life. They'd never make it through dinner. No, this garbage is the hidden monster they only share with the grace of anonymity.
One hopes that you are merely drunk, and therefore spouting off. Were you actually sober, I'd feel really sorry for anyone that has bothered to care about you.
You maybe don't know as many hopelessly pathetic twerps as I've encountered recently? Because I can see a few of them saying things like this and then wondering why they never get a second date.
Heck, I could see that creep who was following me around all summer acting like AoR. He'll never get an actual date with an actual woman either.
I did say "not all"... ;-) anyway my nice FRiends are all pretty decent guys. Dunno about all the rest of the folks on this site, natch.
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