Is Marriage Becoming Obsolete?

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So asks Pew:

The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families - Pew Research Center

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  • as of 2008, there's been a huge decline from 1960 in the number of married adults
  • 4 in 10 people say marriage is on the way out
  • it's happening across class lines

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lol marriage
 


guerilla said:
I could see it being pretty good with the right broad.
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Yup.. She was the "career" person and I just did things as I felt like it to make money and play Mr Mom.. Hit a couple decent businesses but never really had to have a "real job"..

That and she was a gymnast in college when we met..

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Been married 3 yrs and been together a total of 9 yrs. Like guerilla said, if it's with the "right broad" it's great. We see our friends getting married a lot now (I'm 27) and it's like WTF are these idiots getting married for? Don't know each other hardly (sorry but knowing each other for a year isn't truly knowing each other), blatantly obvious it's they're a poor match, etc etc.. It's no wonder marriages fail and have such a bad rep, no one knows what the fuck they're doing in a relationship or know how to manage one.

We just consider ourselves fortunate to work out really well with each other. We knew each other for years before getting married, and also didn't live with each other.. Everyone told us how drastically different life will be post marriage and also living with each other and those 2 things changing over night. We didn't want to be naive and say "we don't think so", but it really wasn't different at all. We already knew each other, we didn't have any surprises that a lot of our friends experience once they really got to know the other person.

But to each his own. If you think marriage sucks that's fine, but personally it's been good so far.
 
atleast i can eat my wifes p***y everynight and not worry about some kind of std on my mouth.

thats one of the benefit of marriage.

also the most rewarding thing EVER in the history of LIFE is having a child and seeing that child grow from a baby to a toddler to a child, etc... people who grow businessess and corporations get satisfaction in that but nothing touches your heart more then growing a human being and seeing your blood in that child.

it is the purpose of life and marrieage is another important piece in the realm of a family.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. -Henrik Ibsen[/FONT][/FONT]
 
Marriage is pointless if no kids are involved...if there is kids then marriage is necessary, but marriage should not be forced because of a kid...Don't be stupid and have unplanned kids / marriages and everything will work out good...
 
Marriage these days fail statistically because the life expectancy is so long... to reduce the rate of divorce the best thing to do is go back to the arrange marriage system used up to the early years of the 19th Century. It worked well for the first millennia why play with a system that doesn't work?

I am not indian however I can tell you that their idea works well with very low divorce rates. Love in the sense of what people see it today is convoluted and to say the least filled with a lot of basic flaws. I would happily have paid a dowery for a woman knowing that she wouldn't be leaving my side and taking half of my stuff with her.

After all a few goats and a few k in coin is a lot cheaper than 80%-100%.
 
oldgym said:
atleast i can eat my wifes p***y everynight and not worry about some kind of std on my mouth.

thats one of the benefit of marriage.

also the most rewarding thing EVER in the history of LIFE is having a child and seeing that child grow from a baby to a toddler to a child, etc... people who grow businessess and corporations get satisfaction in that but nothing touches your heart more then growing a human being and seeing your blood in that child.

it is the purpose of life and marrieage is another important piece in the realm of a family.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. -Henrik Ibsen[/FONT][/FONT]
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Every Night? :bowdown:
 
oldgym said:
also the most rewarding thing EVER in the history of LIFE is having a child and seeing that child grow from a baby to a toddler to a child, etc... people who grow businessess and corporations get satisfaction in that but nothing touches your heart more then growing a human being and seeing your blood in that child.
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For some people. However, the statistics have been proven out time and time again - the majority of people say that having children did not have an overall positive effect on their lives.

Keep in mind I have a child. And I think more like you - but the statistics don't lie - it's not for everyone.

Back to the topic at hand - marriage started to become obsolete when women started to get equal rights. It was inevitable. Prior to equal rites women were more like property and could not support themselves because they could never compete on a 1:1 basis with men in the workplace.

That has changed. Women no longer need men to support them. And men no longer need marriage to get sex.
 
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