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Why Are There So Many Single Americans?
New York Times ^
| 21 January 2007
| Kate Zernike
Posted on 01/23/2007 7:11:06 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: azkathy
In this day and age any woman who choses to stay married to a cheater must have a death wish... True, and true of both genders.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:40:30 PM PST
by
gogeo
(Irony is not one of Islam's core competencies (thx Pharmboy))
To: Steel Wolf
Exactly. Anyone with real concerns about the long term viability of their marriage needs to take two steps back and think. Heck anyone thinking about getting married needs to do that just to be sure it is right.
I did not let myself get emotionally invested to any significant degree until I was 99.999% sure she was the right one for all time.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:45:54 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: RobRoy
Dead on. I'm lucky, the eeeeevil slime mom and I get along pretty well and the first thing we did when it was clear that things weren't working, was to agree that the good of the children came first, over either of our needs. And we stuck to it.
We get along well enough that now we can call each other the eeeeeevil slime mom and the eeeeeevil slime dad with no venom and and laugh.
OTOH, I have a friend whose ex convinced a judge to impute enough income to require $28,000 in child support a month. He shares an apartment that has to be all of 800 sq ft.
Of the three options offered, I'd go with the Plague, there are antibiotics for that, and even if they don't work it's pretty quick...
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:46:33 PM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: JenB
But don't you know women only marry so they can take away the guy's house, car, kids, toys, and money?
Ok honey, but I keep the dogs.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:48:13 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: BlazingArizona
****Actually, it's more that while women pay an emotional price for a marriage gone wrong, for men it's a financial meltdown.****
Actually I was emotionally crushed when the woman I loved decided that she didn't want to be married anymore. I didn't date again for years and when I started again I couldn't beleive how absolutly toxic and emotionally screwed up most of the women I met were. I stopped trying a couple of years ago (I'm in my mid-30s) and have decided to just enjoy the little pleasures in life.
To: shrinkermd
>> the marriage rate has declined equally for men and for women.
Wow!
246
posted on
01/23/2007 12:49:34 PM PST
by
a_Turk
(Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice, Comitas, Firmitas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Industria..)
To: gogeo
I don't blame women, I blame laws and courts and politicians.
It is pretty understandable since they are mostly indoctrinated that they don't really need men and kids don't HAVE to have a father, etc.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:51:58 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: RexBeach
To be correct, abortion on demand and no fault divorce were products of the G.I. and Silent Generations, as Roe v. Wade dates to 1973, when there were few, if any, Baby Boomers in the legislatures, Congress, or the courts. Divorce laws were liberalized on the state level in the 1960s and 1970s, when veterans of World War II dominated the legislatures.
The slide of America into moral degeneracy was well underway well before the Beatles landed at JFK Airport in New York, or Mario Savio led the "Free Speech Movement" at Berkeley.
To: sam_paine
the stat included 15 year old girls AND
80 + year old women.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:56:49 PM PST
by
altura
(Woefully lacking in delicacy and tact, but working on it.)
To: AdamSelene235
Actually, the suicide rate for divorced men is 10X that of divorced women whearas it is normally only a 2X gender difference. My suicide rate would have been 100% if I hadn't gotten divorced.
250
posted on
01/23/2007 12:57:27 PM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: TalonDJ
Bah, don't you know men are irrelevant to raising a healthy dog and single women can do just as good a job. I guess I will have to stay married to you after all.
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posted on
01/23/2007 12:59:38 PM PST
by
JenB
To: DragonflyX
Actually I was emotionally crushed when the woman I loved decided that she didn't want to be married anymore. I didn't date again for years and when I started again I couldn't beleive how absolutly toxic and emotionally screwed up most of the women I met were. An excellent point. Conventional wisdom for thirty-something women on how to deal with men is a warped, bitter philosophy with all the mercy of a Chinese warlord. I know a lot of guys and gals who were absolutely devastated by their divorce, and left as emotional wrecks for years. Eventually, the men got over it and were ready to try again.
With women, however, the damage seems permanent, and cumulative. Bitterness and anger drives a lot of women into a state they don't recover from. A bad break for them, and a bad break for guys looking to start over.
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:01:31 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
To: TalonDJ
Anyone getting into marriage by weighing how easy it will be to get out of has no business getting married in the first place. Issac Asimov once said that going into a career in writing was like getting married. Anyone who could be talked out of it should be!
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:03:06 PM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: null and void
Makes sense. It is not that we really want fewer people married but if it is possible for them to get talked out of it then they were not serious enough in the first place.
Oh no! My wife got me into writing... this can't be good...
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:05:30 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: TalonDJ
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:09:37 PM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: Wallace T.
How did the Beatles hasten moral degeneracy? By improving a moribund pop music scene?
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:11:47 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
It was the long hair, I tell ya!
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:20:09 PM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: shrinkermd
This is one of the most poorly-written articles I have ever read. It's almost as if English is a second language to the writer.
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:26:03 PM PST
by
Junior
(Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
To: AdamSelene235
Actually, the suicide rate for divorced men is 10X that of divorced women whearas it is normally only a 2X gender difference.
What you're responding to isn't my writing. I agree with you on the emotional price men pay in divorce. This meshes well with the fact that %70 of divorces are initiated by women.
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:31:08 PM PST
by
freedomfiter2
("if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great"; de Tocqueville)
To: TalonDJ
No those are not real precentages. I am just using them to show why the 'of all marriages' is a worthless statistic.
Good point. Those statistics are worthless but useful if you are trying to destigmatize divorce.
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posted on
01/23/2007 1:38:18 PM PST
by
freedomfiter2
("if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great"; de Tocqueville)
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