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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Women can go out, bat their eyelashes, and find some guy (sucker) that will support them in weeks.
The guy gets stuck with a massive financial burden, ownership ranking on that of his high school graduation day, a lot of payments, and very little means to provide for himself for years on end.
It’s a very tough situation. It’s hard on the second wife as well. She has to put up with the antics of the ex too.
The earliest precedent in no-fault divorce laws was originally enacted in Russia shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. They were legislated in the series of decrees that issued in early 1918. The decrees included nonjudicial dissolution of marriage by either party and mandatory provision of child-support.[2] The purpose of the Soviet no-fault divorce laws was ideological, intended to revolutionize society at every level...Nikolai Krylenko, a chief architect of the Soviet law of marriage and leading theorist of "socialist legality" in the 1920s and 1930s, described the purpose of divorce without restraint as a step toward the ultimate goal of the abolition of marriage, thereby establishing the socialist transformation of society.There's a method to the madness.
Ironically, Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce legislation in the US in 1970.
I'm thinking you demonstrate the kind of duplicity our "woman first" system is despised for.
You spend twenty five bucks on Sephora, and I spend twenty bucks on an electric screwdriver, but when we get divorced you want me to sell my screwdriver so you can have half.
Just saying but I have warmed up food and cooked on a wood stove in a rural situation. Not family meals. That is the province of women. IOW I am ahead of you in knowing the logistics and how to. Please try it in the next 10 years to get an idea of what being “army general” was like
Guys love tools and the only shopping we like is hardware and lumber and the like. We like to and have to fix things on the "material" level. Women and wives are the fixers and repairers and soothers on the spiritual level.
I’m not divorced, and I sympathize with the divorced men on this forum; younger American men are watching & learning, and apparently are determined not to repeat the same mistake (in terms of marriage in general - not divorce). I work with angry childless American women who are past childbearing age, who are getting married late in life because the current boyfriend safely feels he risks nothing. The women have their own money, won’t steal their children (they’ll have none), and would have no claim to the mens’ future earnings due to their own salaries.
Today’s American teens & millenials are the last generation of Americans; these women seethe with resentment at the black, Hispanic, and Asian co-workers who have the families they can’t, and they resent American men like me who married a foreigner to have a family.
Thank you, stephen.
Fair enough re: showing daughters how to be attractive to males. But you guys need to step it up and make sure you look good for us, too.
Part of my second paragraph.
I'm one of those. My first marriage was like that. She changed...NO JOKE...right after we walked down the isle after saying I Do. Not kidding...it was INSTANT. We stood outside while they dismissed the church, then we walked back in to take pictures....and I was thinking the whole time "what have I done....and he the heck IS this?"
She wanted out of her parents house. They had money and she wanted to be out from under their roof. She was a Totally different person within 1 minute of "kissing the bride"....and I noticed it. She had shown her true colors only once before (about 1 month before the wedding) but it wasn't enough to scare me away...
Just thankful we had no kids together...and thankful we were young and didn't have anything to fight over.
If you’re talking about physical good looks, what is out there that would take care of that cowlick that I have? Redken Polish Up is sometimes just not good enough.
I have been married a long time. My oldest girl is 44. I am 63. There are 2 people in this world who I know would give their lives watching my back. My brother and my wife. My wife is a better shot so I married her.
Hey, she’s playing you. Don’t go there.
Get you some L.A. Looks gel-—that stuff is hard as cement, LOL!
So the girl will break her knuckles trying to run her hands through my hair, but no more disgusting cowlick.
Got it!
I hear you.
***********************************
Ridiculous. There are plenty of good men out there.
You’re a good man. Any woman in her right mind would be thrilled to know you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.