Posted on 10/31/2021 2:52:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks Mr. Cut-and-paste, but I was really more interested in what you think about it. Not a readers digest article.
CC
After which; the REST of us get to support her bad choice until the kid comes of age.
Corallary: You always get MORE of what you subsidize.
There is NO reason that Government should be an enabler in this activity!
and longer if STILL in school?
and on your insurance ‘til 28-29???
As opposed to 60% of married women...
Regards,
The problems with cohabitation goes to prove that God’s plan for marriage was a good one & still is.
The problems with cohabitation goes to prove that God’s plan for marriage was a good one & still is.
I thought that was 26, under Obamacare. Not sure of the current state of things.
You’re conflating two problems.
1. Cohabitation leading to a host of problems.
2. What Family Court does to a man’s finances upon divorce. (this has happened to me personally)
I had to go to court to stop mine, once the kids were 18.
59% divorce rate is a myth based on typical liberal math.
https://www.tdcfamilylaw.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-50-divorce-rate
In my world, I honestly only know maybe a dozen people who’ve been divorced, and I know quite a few people.
This horse is long out of the barn. My wife’s strict Catholic parents were upset that we lived together for 18 months before our wedding. We were officially engaged before snacking up, ring on her finger, etc. Her parents still almost boycotted the wedding.
18 years and 3 grandchildren later now they complain that they don’t get to see the grandkids enough.
This is a nothingburger.
It was a friend’s son, some time back. Child support went to 18, unless he went to college. Then, it was 21.
It's about a married couple but their marriage was apparently a very cold and unloving one. They both worked in the airlines, one a pilot and one a stewardess, and they had totally different schedules, often leaving their children home with a nanny.
The most telling part about the failed marriage was that they kept their money separate. Which in my opinion is a recipe for disaster in any relationship, married or not. A true couple should have the same financial goals and should share their resources equally.
In this case, the husband (pilot) made over triple that of the wife who was the stewardess. Yet he kept his money separate from her and indulged himself in whatever the hell he wanted to buy for himself, including a girlfriend in New Jersey. He left his wife to deal with household expenses on her much more meager stewardess salary.
Anyway, the wife finally smartened up and filed for divorce, which would have likely resulted in the courts splitting the assets between them and forcing the husband to reduce his standard of living through alimony and child support.
The husband could not deal with this and plotted her murder over several days by buying a dump truck, renting a woodchipper, among many other things. When she returned from Europe on one of her work assignments, he apparently killed her at home, stored her body in a freezer (that he also recently bought) and on a snowy night, drove to a nearby river where he chipped her frozen body (along with actual wood to make it look good) into the water.
The husband almost got away with it. It was almost the perfect murder. But the diligence of the wife's friends and a private investigator eventually turned up enough clues to get law enforcement (who were very reluctant to get involved) to investigate and the husband was eventually convicted - the first case in Connecticut a person was convicted of murder without a body. I highly recommend the book (true crime).
Anyway, my point of all of this is that a marriage certificate has little to do with how happy a couple is. Whether they "co-habitate" or are officially married, they need to truly be a couple and not be living separate lives.
Sometimes the mother and kids will receive govt. benefits that could not be afforded if the father was married to her. Health insurance, housing allowance, etc. I know of such a couple.
The family is very close and all live together. Children polite and well dressed. The father is much older than the Mom, who was worried about her bio clock running out at age 36. He even refers to her as “his wife”, but without govt. assistance, he could never soley support his family.
“ Men get sick of signing over half of everything they own because of a
failed relationship”
One sided comments don’t help.
People make it about a relationship. It isn’t. It’s about family.
A philosophical piece was published in 1968 widely rejected by progressive clergy but even more highly regarded now by traditionalists . It predicted all of this, noting the intent of cultural acceptance of birth control.
It wasn’t Cameron Diaz or even the screenwriters. It’s the culture of destruction of marriage and family. Cultural acceptance of birth control has been the most powerful ‘weapon’ in the perpetrator’s arsenal.
The novel as you describe it sounds interesting. I would be thrown off by the title, assuming any book called “Thw Woodchipper Murders” would be one incredibly gory, sixteen buckets o blood type story. A Steven King type read, something I generally avoid.
Maybe the book doesn’t match the cover this time.
If a male partner in a cohabitating relationship abuses his partner does anyone really think that the same person won't abuse his partner in marriage?
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