Guys.. seriously.. dont ever.. ever.. never.. ever.. get married..

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: z0mb13
This is why Scott Peterson killed his wife.. its not that he was a murderer.. he just literally saw no way out.

:roll:

heh, sure beats the financial misery he would be in.

<---divorce and in financial misery.

Ah, because being bubba's love interest in prison is much better?

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: z0mb13
This is why Scott Peterson killed his wife.. its not that he was a murderer.. he just literally saw no way out.

:roll:

heh, sure beats the financial misery he would be in.

<---divorce and in financial misery.

Ah, because being bubba's love interest in prison is much better?

No Bubba is gonna tear him a new one like a divorce lawyer would
Aside from my grandparents, I can't think of any relatives in the US who aren't divorced. And the kids always suffer.
American women are too independent for marriage, that's the problem.

 

[XMan]

People are bandying facts about with no real basis in truth. The divorce rate is not skyrocketing, and 50% of all marriages do not end in divorce. The statistics, from the US Census:

1991, 0.47%
1992, 0.48%
1993, 0.46%
1994, 0.46%
1995, 0.46%
1995, 0.43%
1997, 0.43%,
1998, 0.42%,
1999, 0.41%,
2000, 0.41%,
2001, 0.40%,

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: X-Man
People are bandying facts about with no real basis in truth. The divorce rate is not skyrocketing, and 50% of all marriages do not end in divorce. The statistics, from the US Census:

1991, 0.47%
1992, 0.48%
1993, 0.46%
1994, 0.46%
1995, 0.46%
1995, 0.43%
1997, 0.43%,
1998, 0.42%,
1999, 0.41%,
2000, 0.41%,
2001, 0.40%,

Do people who marry and re-marry and re-re-marry get counted twice? I really don't know.

 

[deadken]

Originally posted by: SoylentGreen
MOST marriages fail.. the deepest in love couples will be shouting at each other in court years later.. I know the sweet and giving woman you fell in love with will change after you marry her.

Not really..... The 'Smart' ones wait until after a kid or two... Then it drains your life away to leave (it only starts with the huge percentage of your earnings).

 

[Mustangrrl]

Anyone with that negative of an attitude towards marriage is bound to fail at it.

Believe it or not, not all women are out to trap some poor sucker into marriage so she can get his money, because really, there are not that many wealthy men out there. Most women I know make significantly more money than their husbands/boyfriends (as I do myself) and some of us have even gone to college and have professional careers :Q

Oh, and I'd like to send a big boo f'ing hoo to murderer Scott Peterson, that dumpy, poser, sh!t salesman.

 

[Stark]

i've always viewed the two most honorable occupations in life as:
1. clergy
2. husband and father

that said, that was a sad, sad OP.

 

[konakona]

having lived in a dorm for 4 years, i heard this so many times : you dont room with your best friend unless you want to be less close to him/her or even ruin the sound relationship. at first i scoffed at it, but i learned it the hard way; not that we stopped talking to each other or anything, but we werent as good of friends after 1 year of rooming together. looks like there is a safe distance for any kind of relationship... who knows, maybe its the AT field.
to me marriage just looks like a whole bunch of responsibility imposed on you by signing a contract. why marry when you could still be with your girl as long as you get along with her well? well i will admit if you want kids then i guess you would have to be married...

 

[petejk]

i'm one of those dumbass guys....who should have listened to leykis even though i've always loved his words.

good thing i took my lesson young...and won't make the same mistake


oh ya...if anyone is in LOVE!!!

please, buy my engagement ring..i'm selling 5k



http://www.24x7uptime.com/2rings/

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: KMDupont64

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: KMDupont64
1) Not a Joke
2) Answer to your question is yes. If they were perfect, they wouldn't divorce.

Well, I hate to break it to you but there is no "perfect" mate for anyone. Marriage is about love, mutual respect and compromise. Now by compromise I'm not saying that you need to change your entire personality, just that you will need to compromise every now and then to make things work.

Well, sorry, but I married someone perfect for me. I am sorry you are not as fortunate.

You said perfect. There is no perfect person, that's all I'm saying. There is no way that you will agree with someone else on everything that comes up in your life. No freaking way.

I did marry the best person for me. I did not marry a perfect mate though. I object to your use of the word "perfect" that's all. It implies that you never argue, never disagree about anything and never do or say things, even unintentionally, to hurt the other no matter how slight. If you say that then you are a liar or you just haven't been together long enough yet.

I don't mind having a nice coversation with you, but never call me a liar and I don't need to prove anything to you with how long I have been with my mate. I have made my point, I love life and my wife, I wish everyone could feel how I do.

I don't need to convince anyone, I really don't care if anyone believes me, just sharing that in my case, everything is peaches. so maybe someone doesn't get discouraged by all the negativity towards marriage in this place.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I wonder if alimony ever worked in reverse, that is the wife paying the guy?

Didn't Liz Taylor have to pay one of her former boytoy husbands?

 

[alocurto]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
This is why Scott Peterson killed his wife.. its not that he was a murderer.. he just literally saw no way out.

:roll:

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: z0mb13
I wonder if alimony ever worked in reverse, that is the wife paying the guy?

Didn't Liz Taylor have to pay one of her former boytoy husbands?

I get paid child support by my ex wife

 

[DPmaster]

Originally posted by: X-Man
People are bandying facts about with no real basis in truth. The divorce rate is not skyrocketing, and 50% of all marriages do not end in divorce. The statistics, from the US Census:

1991, 0.47%
1992, 0.48%
1993, 0.46%
1994, 0.46%
1995, 0.46%
1995, 0.43%
1997, 0.43%,
1998, 0.42%,
1999, 0.41%,
2000, 0.41%,
2001, 0.40%,

I'm assuming you got your information from here. Keep reading and you will see on that same page

This is the Census Bureau's often-cited "50%" rate, the proportion of marriages taking place right now that will eventually divorce, which has since been revised downward to roughly 43% by the National Center for Health Statistics but was moved back up to around 50% by the Census Bureau in 2002, with even more ifs ands and buts than usual.

and

"The National Center for Health Statistics recently released a report which found that 43
percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce within 15 years. The study is based on
the National Survey of Family Growth, a nationally representative sample of women age 15 to
44 in 1995.



Hopefully when I get married I won't be in that statistic.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: alphadude
I used to go out with this chick who was married. (they broke up) + she had 2 kids aged 2 and 4.
The husband was a bit of a fvck. Everytime he came around to see kids all hell would break loose.
Even she used to wreck his stuff that was still left in the house. One time in winter she had a fire, and after a big fight, she pulled out all his high school yearbooks, photos, passport, old drivers licenses, and so on, and just burnt them cuz she was pissed off. It was funny at the time, but thinking back it was pretty cheap!

Also her skank friend (and I mean SKANK) was seeing a guy for about 3 years. He was really in love with her. Isnt that sweet
But then I found out she didnt even love him. She was with him cuz he was good at looking after her son (not his) and he made heaps of money. Thats all she cared about! $$$$. She also cheated on him nearly every weekend. I know cuz she used to constantly hang around me and my GF at the time.

Last year they got married!!
How sick is that.

wow. that's seriously horrendous and i can't believe you didn't say a thing to the guy or even to the skank.

this thread has been and interesting read and contained some useful information...

 

[NumbersGuy]

Here are some wise words from somebody who really knows (from a Seinfeld transcript) :shocked:

JERRY: I had a very interesting lunch with George Costanza today.
KRAMER: Really?
JERRY: We were talking about our lives and we both kind of realized we're kids. We're not men.
KRAMER: So, then you asked yourselves, "Isn't there something more to life?"
JERRY: Yes. We did.
KRAMER: Yeah, well, let me clue you in on something. There isn't.
JERRY: There isn't?

KRAMER: Absolutely not. I mean, what are you thinking about, Jerry? Marriage? Family?
JERRY: Well...
KRAMER: They're prisons. Man made prisons. You're doing time. You get up in the morning. She's there. You go to sleep at night. She's there. It's like you gotta ask permission to use the bathroom. Is it all right if I use the bathroom now?
JERRY: Really?
KRAMER: Yeah, and you can forget about watching TV while you're eating.
JERRY: I can?
KRAMER: Oh, yeah. You know why? Because it's dinner time. And you know what you do at dinner?
JERRY: What?
KRAMER: You talk about your day. How was your day today? Did you have a good day today or a bad day today? Well, what kind of day was it? Well, I don't know. How about you? How was your day?

JERRY: Boy.
KRAMER: It's sad , Jerry. It's a sad state of affairs..
JERRY: I'm glad we had this talk.
KRAMER: Oh, you have no idea.


Been there, done that: it's a mathematically unstable.
Requires 2 skilfull acrobats to stay on that high wire. And, is the net down there? Ouch!

btw Jerry is happily married to a woman who divorced her recently wed husband, who was probably happily married at the time too.

 

[dfi]

I just want to add that if you type in "us census divorce", the first link will take you to a excel worksheet that contains marriage percentages grouped by race and sex.

If you look at those numbers, you'll realize that a tight rope walker in the circus probably has better chances of making it across safely than you do of making your marriage last. Is a tight rope walker any more likely to make it across without a safety net? Do the ones who use a safety net expect to fail? Now if a tight rope walker doesn't use a safety net, is he just confident or extremely reckless? Maybe both?

But I forget, statistics don't apply to you. You and your mate are special because of factors x, y, and z.

dfi

 

[Goosemaster]

talk about a downer

 

[Hyperblaze]

Can't wait to get married!

Just need to find the right woman first!

 

[Corsairpro]

If you have to PAY an ex- negotiate alimony (its tax deductible)
If you have to RECEIVE $ from an ex- negotiate child support (its taxable to the person who pays it)

 

[Sentinel]

This is why Scott Peterson killed his wife.. its not that he was a murderer.. he just literally saw no way out.

yeah? ok then I guess I could kill my parents because they put pressure on me to suceed, or my professors who give me bad grades and suck at teaching.
but that doesn't make me a sociopath or murderer does it?

 

[GasX]

It was the happiest day of my life, walking down the aisle towards my missus, everybody smiling.
The priest said a few nice words, then i kissed her...



















and shut the coffin lid

 

[TheShiz]

heres all you need to know about marriage:

just say no

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: TheShiz
heres all you need to know about marriage:

just say no

As bad as it sounds, that site has it down pat.

Absolute proof and undeniable evidence.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

I don't plan on it.

Seems like 3 out of 4 marraiges I hear about in real life or read about online end up being bad in the end. At least for the guy.