re: Marriage? What's the point?

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Marriage? What's the point?

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Used to be for sex and children now its just something gay people do.

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LL, could you please tell us more about how marriage works...

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We also need Nurse to come back and tell us about raising kids in a married household.

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Yeah sounds like she got too comfortable. You can't let yourself go as a woman or your man may stray.

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One thing I'm always willing to pay for the wifey:

Gym, yoga, pilates, barre, etc. memberships and tight workout clothes.

That's the best investment I make

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All my married friends say there is no way in hell they would ever get married again

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They're fricking with you.

I'm not married, fwiw

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ut here is the thing: It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce. It has not been for some time. Even though social scientists have tried to debunk those myths, somehow the conventional wisdom has held.



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About 70 percent of marriages that began in the 1990s reached their 15th anniversary (excluding those in which a spouse died), up from about 65 percent of those that began in the 1970s and 1980s. Those who married in the 2000s are so far divorcing at even lower rates. If current trends continue, nearly two-thirds of marriages will never involve a divorce, according to data from Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist (who also contributes to The Upshot).


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They also happen to be a force behind rising economic and social inequality, because the decline in divorce is concentrated among people with college degrees. For the less educated, divorce rates are closer to those of the peak divorce years.

Of college-educated people who married in the early 2000s, only about 11 percent divorced by their seventh anniversary, the last year for which data is available. Among people without college degrees, 17 percent were divorced, according to Mr. Wolfers.

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I have a theory why marriage success rates are trending WAY UP.

In a more progressive society, people are waiting longer to be married than ever before. Both men AND women are allowing their own careers to develop, have tons of premarital sex, and often co-habitate before becoming engaged.

Basically people are test driving before buying now and its leading to better success rates. Also, people are waiting instead of rushing, thus removing the unspoken bitterness that the marriage stopped you from becoming everything you could be.

I must have missed the part where I said anything about marriage other than believing in it.

Those tricky posts.. they'll just disappear on ya, am I right?

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He kicked me and our one year old son out of the home and told me to find somewhere else to live.

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Sounds like you need a good life insurance policy and a hit man. POS

Yup

I think that marrying in your 20s is on a whole a bad idea. You're still not fully matured yet. I'm 26, and Ive pretty much decided that I'll be getting married when I'm 30 at the earliest. I know that in 4-5 years, I will be a different person with different standards. People put themselves on a timeline and tell themselves that they must be married by age X which is absolutely ridiculous. I'm from arse backwards NOLA, so I know that as a 26 year old male with no marriage prospects, I am looked at as a "freak."

celebrating my 20th Anniversary today. Love being married, I was miserable while single. It is not for everyone. But I know I am better because of my wife.