Posted on 01/15/2007 7:16:36 PM PST by Lorianne
Let me get this straight: The men are gallant, noble and gentlemanly. The women are toxic, vacant, vain, boring, indulgent and lazy.
I'm glad to see not too many posters are sympathizing with these arrogant, selfish, complaining men.
Not to worry. Islam will soon take over Britain. These women will be sold into slavery and become concubines whence they will be soundly beaten by their husbands several times per week.
And a jolly good thing it will be.
Yeah, but my wife was a hard working nurse at the time. I did not know she would retire at 26.
IOW
Feminist = Toxic Wife
(s)paging captain obvious.....(/s)
Sorta like people that accuse you of any wrong-doing are committing that act themselves, eh?
Because the English are wankers.
I am just kidding about that. I know you are English and I am just playing around. The reason I said that it would be "worse" is because the article is from a British paper and because the US divorce rate is %50 and I do not know what it is in he UK.
Obviously, golf is a hot button for you. Golf was really not the issue.
For the sake of brevity, I left out part of the conversation. This was not to be a temporary situation. He was to give up ALL weekend activities for the foreseable future. No other hobbies, regardless of the time required. No running, no tennis, nothing. The wife was going to use the time to go to the mall and visit with friends. The weekends were to be her time away from the baby.
He would work all week and mind the baby on the weekends. She would mind the baby all week and have the weekends off, so to speak. I really thought there might just possibly be a more equitable allocation of time. Some time for her, some time for him.
Not necessarily. I have several female medical colleagues that work their butts off bringing home the bacon while their unemployed husbands enjoy the lifestyle at the golf club and let the house go to pot.
This is about character, not gender.
If she's real, she'd be wise to add one more position the household staff- a food taster........
We call them HIGH MAINTENANCE with low return on investment.
seriously it seems these women are going to the be live alone woman who is going to be a bitter schrew.
ann coulter did an interesting report (or was it michele malkin) that the 50% divorce rate does NOT count when people remarry the person they divorced.
Thus a man who divorced and then marrys the same woman counts as the 50% divorce despite the fact they have only been married to the same people.
The article said the divorce rate drops down to the high 30's (38-39) if you factor in do-over marages.
Maturity doesn't always come with money, Some lessons are very expensive
and you are right. Doing things for the ill valued motivation will give one what they "wanted" but surely not what they needed or expected.
LOL yeah
(/jealousy)
funny~
you are a good man Redleg Duke.
Thanks, M'lady, but let's just keep that our secret...besides, nobody would believe you! :-)
I'm not English [except by heredity.] I'm a native Texan! We have a high divorce rate because there's no alimony. ;o)
The article DOES make it sound 'worse' in England - that's why I pinged MadIvan.
It goes both ways. We woman can be young, niave & make very poor decisions. I did. Not money. Thought I had a good Christian man.. he turned into an emotional abuser to me & our son & was not spiritual but very legalistic. I stayed 22 years. I should have left before we had a child. But I did leave before I committed suicide...and I was VERY close
Hind site is 20/20 as they say
LaineyDee.. what a smart gal you are & what a good catch you are to have a value system that is correct. You will be blessed~I just KNOW it!
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