Quote: (02-16-2013 11:35 PM)bigxxx Wrote:
A post from somewhere said it best:
if you want kids, consider marriage
If not, don't bother with it
As for the the 50% divorce rate that gets thrown about (and is true), keep in mind a good percentage of the population is made of idiots. So is it any surprise the rate is that high?
Probabaly the same percentage of the population carries monthly credit card debt. Ive never done that in my life.
So if I did take the plunge, I wouldn't group myself with the average clown who gets married and doesn't what's what. Of course still no guarantees as only 2 things in life come with that.
Of all my friends/people I know that got hitched, most that got divorced were predictable. Same with the ones doing well.
Exactly. If you aren't going to have kids, there is no reason to get married (and even then there is always adoption, although I don't think it usually an option for single guys). I do not intend to have kids and I've crunched the numbers. Even if I had a dream wife who fixed all my meals, did all the cleaning and laundry and generally tried to provide a comfortable home, it would cost me much less just to have it done by a professional. And this is before you factor in that (a) the majority of women are intolerable shrews and (b) the cost and long term financial servitude imposed by divorces and © the cost in time involved with sharing your life with an inferior creature. And to those claiming it will be different in your case and you'll beat the odds: have you seen how a woman can change after 10 or 15 years, not just in looks but in personality and behavior? And presumably you'd want to marry a young woman and these are the ones where you can least predict how'll they'll be in the future.