[discostu]

Planning for failure is a self fulfilling prophecy. My parents were divorced too, I chose to learn from their mistakes and my marriage is has lasted twice as long as theirs and is going stronger than they ever dreamed. In some parts of life it's best not to look at the finish line, because in some parts of life your actual goal is to never cross the finish line.

[weikel]

The divorce rate is 52%( vast majority filed by women) your risking 50% of your stuff plus possibly alimony and child support irregardless of the conduct of either party in the marriage. Some people might think they've got the perfect woman but women tend to change radically around 35 their whole hormonal balance and biochemistry radically alters sorry nothing about marriage appeals to me but im about as cynical as they come.