Posted on 03/01/2006 7:09:06 AM PST by ZGuy
Why didn't you just call this the "I Hate Women" thread??
I made my wife promise me before we got married that she would never kill me for the insurance money and that she would never leave me in the used husband lot. Unfortunately I got left in the used husband lot but it was God's decision, not hers.
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It's rough to be widowed, especially at an age when you do not really anticipate it.
I certainly wouldn't kill my husband for the insurance money, but when I pay the premium, he always asks, "Am I still worth more dead than alive?" and I cheerfully answer, "Yup!"
It seems I remember a Clinton saying, it takes a village to raise a child. Never thought I would see a nation raising
children, that's what we have today in America. It is a going trend, the more children the mother can provide the more money she receives and, more the tax burden for the working class in
America.
They are completely unrelated. When you make it "official", things tend to change very rapidly.
I know real divorced people too. I know quite a few guys who got royally raped. Don't know any women that got raped though. Some of the women who ended up with the kids should have been horse whipped and forcible sterilized (real bad mothers here) yet they had the kids and their ex-husbands, who would have been far better for the kids, got to pay to watch their kids get abused and or exposed to stuff they never should have been exposed to. And it doesn't seem to matter if she was the one who committed adultery, she still gets the kids etc.
Divorce should be very, very costly. Ending a marriage without cause (such as adultery, abuse, abandonment) should be extremely painful. But it should be fair. And it so seldom is. Normally the man gets raped in court and the woman gets off easy.
I'm totally behind ending no-fault divorce. The one who breaks the marriage (commits adultery, abuse or abandons) should lose everything, kids, home, cars, materials. They should leave the marriage having only the clothes on their back and maybe one change. They broke the marriage.
So he made the committment. Congratulations on beating the odds and may you have many, many more happy years together
So it's hopeless for me to even try finding a woman in this day and age?
That's priceless. I miss kidding Michele and being kidded.
You're missing my point. 100 unmarried and 100 married people together will have a lower 18-month (or even 5-year) divorce rate than 200 married people simply by the fact that in the former case half aren't married.
There will be more people split up in the former than the latter, but we're talking divorce rates here.
I am not disputing the general point of the article, just that sentence.
Not at all. Of course I probably wouldn't look in a major metropolitan area (tend to be too liberal and anti-religious)
Try looking in the rural Christian areas. I know of several women who are looking to get married who are still pure and striving to be proverbs 31 type wives. Of course I can't let you know where until after I pick one out for myself (if she'll have me)
Adult men, and women, make adult choices to live their lives the way they wish... neither is a cow. Your post reminds us in a subtle way that in your mind women are lessers and merely fools or victims of the whims of their men. The men are not bovine providing services for free in your mind, the women are.
You know I don't agree with that John. Adult men, or women, have all kinds of success and failure in their relationships. No matter which box you put them in, it's up to the people involved to make the relationship work, or not work.
The fathers I know who actually want custody of the kids have their kids for as much time as they wish.
That custody and support are always at the whim of some man hating court is preposterous. The vast majority of divorces never have their custody or support ordered by a court. They work it out. Those who end up in court failed to be reasonable.
Don't much like women?
Well, we didn't move in together until we were comfortable enough to both acknowledge we were moving in the direction of marriage (and no, I didn't make it an ultimatum; we both had to think seriously about "making the commitment"). I don't think either of us would have wanted it as a casual, open-ended arrangement. We moved in together in June of '85, were engaged at Thanksgiving, and married in September of '86. Thanks for your good wishes.
Sadly, this is all too true.
Since my husband and I became Christians, we certainly believe this is the paramount focus of our marriage.
Well, murder is always an option. Less expensive than divorce. :)
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