Posted on 05/06/2015 8:24:21 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
That’s a question Peter Lloyd tackles in a series in London’s Daily Mail about Britain’s marriage rate, which is at its lowest level since 1895. “The state of matrimony is not just ailing. It is dying out faster than a mobile phone battery,” Lloyd writes. “For an army of women, Mr. Right is simply not there, no matter how hard they look for him.”
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I think there is a trial period where the moderators review your posts for awhile to make sure you aren’t a disruptor.
It doesn’t help when you got a Ruskkie name either! ;)
Now, now...don't get in the way of the woman-bashing festival that always occurs in these threads..whereupon the guy wants to keep all of the tools and toys that he bought while his wife gets the used furniture and the house with a mortgage. What are you thinking?
>> Oh yah the women tend to be fatter and have short hair.
Well, there ya’ go...
Few things piss me off more than guys degrading women.
Don’t be a bitch.
No wife wants a pimp. No husband wants a prostitute. The point of marriage is to reflect Christ's relationship to his Church. One of the most obvious ways we do that is by having children, lots of children.
I'm no prize economically, intellectually, romantically and certainly not good looking. But my wife and I understand that our babies are infinitely more valuable than our other gratifications, they are eternal souls and thus we are blessed with lots of gratification.
She is rather young....do know that as she ages she too may take flight...the younger they are the quicker they leave...once they ‘mature’ .
I read most of the replies here on the board. A few years ago I told my son if he doesn’t marry an Asian woman, he might as well marry a man, that’s what women in America today are like. It wouldn’t be like the good old days when mom stayed home, cleaned the house and raised them. I am glad I gave him the advice.. He almost made a terrible mistake. Once in a while, I hope I am wrong and women are returning to tradition, but even at church I see women speak to their husbands disrespectfully, in public. I am shocked that Proverbs 31 Women are either already married or non- existent.
...”I’m more worried about what kind of women are out there for them. Women today seem to expect exactly what the men expect.”.....
Yes, but I believe that’s driven by feminists. Most advertising, articles etc. today says “it’s a given.” Put it all out there. They have to determine for themselves if that shoe fits what they want.
When my son went to college I heard about this and that girl he met along the way...he was determined to play the field and just enjoy his college years and did for a time.... Until the call when he said, with a whole different ‘tone’...”Mom I’ve met a girl I want to tell you about”.
Gone was the excited fun happy go lucky calls I’d become used to...this was serious. He married that young lady and has three children today...after many years together they remain very much in love and devoted to one another. Because they were not only committed to each other...but to everything they had committed ‘to the marriage’ itself.
PING!
JR! FRiend. Good to see you up and posting. Sorry to hear about 4 times. Wow. Although, I knew a guy once (in the 70s) who had divorced three times, the SAME woman! LOL. She was a knockout who slept around and he was a nice guy, Marine, had been athlete, etc. every time she came back he took her. I used to say chump but now I have read my Bible.
I read all 206 posts on this thread. God, what a downer. OTOH, I realize just how blessed I have been. Married at 18 to the one I couldn’t afford to let get away. Over 40 years now. Don’t ask me how. I swear I understand her less now than ever. I suppose it is because I only started trying to in the last few years. Lawn care. It was a revelation to me. The reason your grass ain’t as green is you are looking straight down at it. Go over there and have a look. Most of it is moss.
Because you are an insufferable bitch?
Instead of getting married, I’m just going to find a woman I hate and buy her a house.
Also try Return of Kings and Rational Male. Chateau Heartiste has it’s moments too.
I don't drink any more, but I could bend a few elbows with ya ..
Never heard from her again. Can't figure out why.
The reason men do not marry has to do with why God created Adam before Eve.
God did not need a woman standing there telling Him how to make Adam.
So it got to the point that by the time our daughter was 12 Mom was going with her to sleepovers at one friend's house. First indication something was wrong was when my neighbor called me at work and told me that my wife was moving stuff out of the house.
Now the ex-wife is living with the drug addicted bum, daughter (at 14) is in trouble with the law. I made out pretty well, kept the house (mortgage upside down), all the vehicles (wish I could sell her car but it to is worth less than I owe), and all she gets is a small monthly percentage of my Navy retirement.
And my heart ripped out and smashed after 23 years of faithful marriage. And I'm still dealing with the loneliness.
I discovered I am a fairly good one. We hardly cook anything though. Yawning chasms in terms stuff in common.
If they didn’t have that thang, there’d be bounty on ‘em ...
Latin American women will suffice as well; more traditional, love being mothers, want to make it work. Almost twenty years now...
I believe that the Christian man who truly puts Christ first and makes the prayerful effort to find a wife of a similar world view and value system will be successful in God's own time.
Married 28 years, through crushing financial troubles and serious mental illness, yet we still love each other. I must do EVERYTHING that normally the wife would do, cooking, cleaning, etc. Yet I do it joyfully. I love my wife more each day, and when the sun shines through the dark clouds she tells me she loves me too.
We are both absolutely committed to marriage, and to each other. Five children later, our commitment is not dimmed. I am sorry for those who have had bad experiences, but marriage is the foundation of society, and when we lose the wonderful understanding of marriage between a man and a woman who commit to each other "through thick or thin" this great nation will be lost.
Marriage is self-sacrifice, the giving of ourselves to the other. It is not "What is the other doing to meet MY needs?" but "How can I better serve my helpmate?"
Sadly, it appears our great nation is abandoning the biblical understanding of marriage, and will suffer the dire consequences.
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