THE MARRIAGE STRIKE -- Why Reluctant Males Just Say No!

Iconoclast ^ | August 25, 2003 | by Wendy McElroy

[Conspiracy Guy]

I find that more than money or anything else, women are attracted to men with a good sense of humor who doesn't look like someone just killed there dog. I haven't ever had real money yet I have never had any problems getting a woman interested. Mainly I don't look for them I just set up my display area near a few and do my prairie chicken dance and call. Brings em in every time. Not to say there aren't some gold diggers on one side and some gold liars on the other side. But in the middle are real people, the majority I think.

[SauronOfMordor]

I haven't ever had real money yet I have never had any problems getting a woman interested. Mainly I don't look for them I just set up my display area near a few and do my prairie chicken dance and call. Brings em in every time.

Exactly my point from #277. Guys make the mistake of thinking they chase girls and catch them.

Wrong.

Women tend to prefer evaluating a guy's "prairie chicken dance", then setting themselves in front of him so the guy runs into her and deludes himself into thinking HE caught HER.

[NRA2BFree]

I've been married twice. Both women were unfaithful. I have one child that I raise, out of 5.

We have a legal system that rewards women for infidelity, and punishes men for productivity. Lawyers, psychologists, and pharmacutical companies, even ministers have a vested interest in divorce because it puts money in their pockets.

I put my first wife through medical school after her infidelities so I wouldnt have to pay alimony. She was angry because now she would have to work, and it was all my fault. I have not seen my kids by her in 3 years. May she rot in all the hells, for 10,000 years each. I understand what you're saying about the infidelity. Mine cheated on me too. That is something I could never do. It's too bad the cheaters can't be hooked up together and leave us decent folks alone.

I think men don't realize that lawyers don't care who is at fault in a divorce. They zero in on the one who has the money and that's who get shafted. In my case, my ex cleaned my clock. Even though he was the one who cheated his lawyer tried to get alimony from me. It cost me 3 houses, a cash settlement and I paid all the bills. I told my lawyer to give him what he wanted and get him out of my life.

Sometimes you have to lose in order to gain, and it was worth every penny of it. I cut my losses and bounced right back.

I forgave them both. They got married and now they have lived every day of their lives not trusting each other because they both know the other one cheated on their spouse. Kinda poetic justice don't you think? lol

I am sorry about your kids. They are the real victims in divorce.

[Conspiracy Guy]

We aint never caught them less they wanted to be caught. We just have to do the best display. Sometimes the display is trumped up with money and Corvette (fat guys do this a lot). Then hen jumps in and takes the money and the Vette and the fat guy can't figure out wahat happened. If the fat guy would just do an honest dance and call, then the right hen would allow him to catch her. Build a nest lay some eggs and eat bugs happily ever after or til next mating season.

[Quilla]

When one considers just how much time a married couple spends together, privacy is an important issue. We are fortunate to have a large older home so my husband and I have separate baths. I remodeled them to suit our individual tastes - his bath's decor is centered around an ivory-handled dueling pistol I found at an antique shop. Separate baths don't assure complete privacy as I often catch him peeking when I shower. :)

[Mr. Mojo]

It's too bad the cheaters can't be hooked up together and leave us decent folks alone.

Amen to that.

[Conspiracy Guy]

You can't fault a feller fer wantin to wash your back ; )

[Lazamataz]

Paging Lazamataz. :) You should take notes from this guy.. I think his idea may be just what you've been looking for. :-P

The non-sexual part is what throws me.

[honeygrl]

"Separate baths don't assure complete privacy as I often catch him peeking when I shower. :) "

Well, you can't really blame him for that one. But if it bugs you, that's why bathroom doors have locks! lol

[Lazamataz]

You can't fault a feller fer wantin to wash your back ; )

*I* can. Stay away from my back, buster.

[honeygrl]

I figured that. Maybe just live alone and work on the rest of it? lol

[Lazamataz]

Separate baths don't assure complete privacy as I often catch him peeking when I shower. :)

Oh, no, that was me wearing a husband-mask.

[honeygrl]

hah! I knew you were really a peeping tom!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Your back is safe with me, I won't even peek, (we aint each other's type). Quilla's hubby likes to keep her back clean and he peeks too.

[Lazamataz]

hah! I knew you were really a peeping tom!

No I'm not!

(PS: Nice halter top you're wearing today.)

[Lazamataz]

Actually, that's the problem. Eighth-grade dropout minimum wage wife/girlfriend-beaters have no end of female attention, and I have been, am, and will be alone. What's the matter with this picture?

Dude, I don't know. I'm as geeky as you or worse even, but I can't seem to beat them off with a stick. Of course, I've kinda settled for one particular one lately... :o)

[Lazamataz]

Unless the FBI is looking for a lives-with-mom-off-his-meds-certifiable-Fruit-Loop-flat-azz-broke-and-riding-a-bicycle-Serial-Killer

Hello, my name is Laz. How are you today?

[najida]

See!

It works!

[Lazamataz]

Also, she told me to watch his temperment when he had to change a flat tire and how he treated his mother.

Sometimes that's the mom's fault, ya know.

[Lazamataz]

I've found that men with cold, rejecting mothers often harbor some anger toward women

I *LOVE* wimmins, and my mom wasn't so great. She wasn't cold and rejecting, but whoooo boy. Someday I will tell you some tales.

Oh, I do see you wrote 'often', not 'always'. :o)