The Five Most Important Attributes of Love
Five Signs That Self-Sabotage Is Breaking Your Heart
Five Reasons to Call Off a Relationship
Five Things Men Don’t Want In A Dream Girl
Five Tips Every Woman Should Know
Five Tips for Creating Intimacy
Five Ways to Keep Him Interested
Five Ways to Be a Better Girlfriend
This is so true. To reference an article you posted a few weeks ago, we have SO many “choices” that we feel we can pass up anyone for someone “better”. This is the prevailing attitude.
I personally don’t believe there is “someone out there for everyone”. But there can be…like Moxie said, if we all just work on our attitudes, and be honest with ourselves. I know a LOT of people who didn’t want to get married, but caved in to the societal pressures. I think everyone needs to ask themselves the question first, “why do I want to get married” because as Moxie pointed out, there are people who feel they can forge relationships that are meaningful without marriage. At least they’re being honest with themselves.
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Jesse says:
February 22, 2011 at 11:56 am
This idea has been tossed around a lot on this web-site, so not much new here, but here goes.
In this day and age, woman control a lot of power — they are now equal after all — and men are wary of this. Once a man gets married, the power shifts heavily to the side of the woman. Once married, every cent a man has salted away, including his businesses, his investments, his life’s achievements — they are all now 1/2 owned by the wife. Plus there is a lifetime commitment (via alimony) to carry the wife to a higher lifestyle than she previously enjoyed. So any man confronting marriage must not only confront the loss of his social independence, but (depending on the laws of state you are married in) also fully surrender his financial independence for the rest of his life.
On top of this, many women have an exaggerated importance about them. They eschew the traditional womanly arts of keeping house. They also may remain independent in the relationship. Woe be to the newly married man who finds out that after marriage the sex dries up, his meals are his responsibility, as is his laundry and housekeeping. The seven year itch has been replaced by the seven-year hang-over. The one where you wake up one day and say “What the hell, I didn’t sign up for this”
Five Signs That Self-Sabotage Is Breaking Your Heart
Five Reasons to Call Off a Relationship
Five Things Men Don’t Want In A Dream Girl
Five Tips Every Woman Should Know
Five Tips for Creating Intimacy
Five Ways to Keep Him Interested
Five Ways to Be a Better Girlfriend
This is so true. To reference an article you posted a few weeks ago, we have SO many “choices” that we feel we can pass up anyone for someone “better”. This is the prevailing attitude.
I personally don’t believe there is “someone out there for everyone”. But there can be…like Moxie said, if we all just work on our attitudes, and be honest with ourselves. I know a LOT of people who didn’t want to get married, but caved in to the societal pressures. I think everyone needs to ask themselves the question first, “why do I want to get married” because as Moxie pointed out, there are people who feel they can forge relationships that are meaningful without marriage. At least they’re being honest with themselves.
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Jesse says:
February 22, 2011 at 11:56 am
This idea has been tossed around a lot on this web-site, so not much new here, but here goes.
In this day and age, woman control a lot of power — they are now equal after all — and men are wary of this. Once a man gets married, the power shifts heavily to the side of the woman. Once married, every cent a man has salted away, including his businesses, his investments, his life’s achievements — they are all now 1/2 owned by the wife. Plus there is a lifetime commitment (via alimony) to carry the wife to a higher lifestyle than she previously enjoyed. So any man confronting marriage must not only confront the loss of his social independence, but (depending on the laws of state you are married in) also fully surrender his financial independence for the rest of his life.
On top of this, many women have an exaggerated importance about them. They eschew the traditional womanly arts of keeping house. They also may remain independent in the relationship. Woe be to the newly married man who finds out that after marriage the sex dries up, his meals are his responsibility, as is his laundry and housekeeping. The seven year itch has been replaced by the seven-year hang-over. The one where you wake up one day and say “What the hell, I didn’t sign up for this”