Is marriage a bad investment ?

[Facetious]

According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America:


The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%

UK divorce rates
Main / Home www.divorcerate.org

 

[Will E Worm]

Depends on whom you marry.

I still don't believe marriage or divorce statistics.

It should be much more difficult to divorce.

Easy Divorce is Socialist Communism. :hatsoff:

The Marxist/Communist Manifesto

"Encourage promiscuity and Easy Divorce."

 

[mongo18]

I think a good marriage is a great investment. If you want to put it in terms of numbers, you get to share a rent/mortgage payment, utilities, car payment and plenty of other expenses with somebody else instead of doing it all yourself. Other benefits include home/personal maintenance. When my wife and I were first married, we both worked and shared the house chores, when we had our daughter, she quit her job and became a stay-at-home mom, while I stayed at work and continued school. If I had to work, go to school, and maintain a home and myself I would find it very difficult to manage, but she keeps me fed and my undies clean so that I can keep bringing in paychecks and getting A's in school.

 

[STDiva]

what he ^ said.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Depends on whom you marry.

I still don't believe marriage or divorce statistics.

It should be much more difficult to divorce.

Easy divorce is Socialist Communism. :hatsoff:

The Marxist/Communist Manifesto

"Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce."

i surely hope you're kidding with the socialism thing - because if you're quoting that site as a source, you're not anywhere near as smart as i thought you were.

plus, what's listed there is the "communist values" as listed by the states in 1963...not exactly a non-partisan view.

marriage is not a bad investment. it is a wonderful investment. even those who have suffered divorce will tell you that (when they're not bitter).

 

[STDiva]

you're not anywhere near as smart as i thought you were.

he thinks the earth is 10,000 years old

marriage is not a bad investment. it is a wonderful investment. even those who have suffered divorce will tell you that (when they're not bitter).

haha, ya when their not bitter. but when they are, it was the worst idea they've ever had.

 

[Gordar]

I was active on another board about 10 years ago (give or take a year) ... On that board were young men and women (most of them being between 15 - 25, although I'll focus on the 18 - 25 now) and they talked a lot about their relationships (even though it was a board dedicated to a writer & not relationships, but ok...).

These people often wrote that they found a guy/girl and in case the relationship wasn't over within the year I could often read that the person got engaged...

I often congratulated them, but I could tell in advance that their marriages wouldn't last, especially in the case of the 18 - 20 yr old girls.

1. They are too young. 18 year old people may be legally adults, but if you look around you, you'll still notice a lot of childish behavior...

2. There are 2 kinds of love. The innitial love, which includes the butterflies & believing everything the other person does is perfect, etc., and a love that's more like intimate companionship. The first kind of love usually lasts 2 - 3 years at most. If you experience the first love it doesn't automatically mean it'll be replaced by the 2nd kind of love.

Since most people get married before the 1st kind of love has passed, they'll never know if there's a link with the other person or not (In many cases there isn't).

3. IF they've lived together (the capital F wasn't a typo btw.) before they got married, the time was so short they hardly got to know eachother. In many cases, they never even lived together at all before they got married.

So if you want a successful marriage :

1. Stay together until both partners are well in their 20's. I cannot give an exact age, because we're talking about individuals here and everyone's different

2. Stay together for at least 3 - 4 years before you ask the other person to marry you (if you still feel a strong connection towards that person by then)...

3. Spend at least half of those 3 - 4 years living together...

If someone asks a person to marry him/her then, the chances of the couple staying together become much bigger... (of course there's never a 100% guarantee)

 

[Will E Worm]

i surely hope you're kidding with the socialism thing - because if you're quoting that site as a source, you're not anywhere near as smart as i thought you were.

plus, what's listed there is the "communist values" as listed by the states in 1963...not exactly a non-partisan view.

marriage is not a bad investment. it is a wonderful investment. even those who have suffered divorce will tell you that (when they're not bitter).

That was the first site I saw that had the list.

"By the state." That's what they say and want you to believe.

Read, Mikhail Gorbachev's book entitled, "Perestroika."

Just for starters.

 

[Gordar]

Depends on whom you marry.

I still don't believe marriage or divorce statistics.

It should be much more difficult to divorce.

Easy divorce is Socialist Communism. :hatsoff:

The Marxist/Communist Manifesto

"Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce."

i surely hope you're kidding with the socialism thing - because if you're quoting that site as a source, you're not anywhere near as smart as i thought you were.

plus, what's listed there is the "communist values" as listed by the states in 1963...not exactly a non-partisan view.

marriage is not a bad investment. it is a wonderful investment. even those who have suffered divorce will tell you that (when they're not bitter).

You're both partially right...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_in_the_Soviet_Union

 

[Will E Worm]

he thinks the earth is 10,000 years old

I never said that. Look up the thread again. :tongue:

 

[STDiva]

I believe close to what you both believe.

But, maybe a bit more. Possibly between ten to twenty thousand years old.

oh sorry.

 

[Will E Worm]

oh sorry.

"I believe close to what you both believe."

I'm not the only one.

"But, maybe a bit more. Possibly between ten to twenty thousand years old."

:hatsoff:

 

[STDiva]

lpl

 

[Torre82]

It's a horrible investment. The exact same as having a roommate.

It starts off fine, you laugh.. share the bills.. good times.
But there are bad times. Thar be arguments. Thar be unemployment while their name is on the lease and you cant just scratch it off, they have to sign away their right to live there.

Only in a marriage people tend to COSIGN for everything. Cars, house, bills, bank accounts.. so while they might've shared some bills, made some sweet loving.. hell, even shat out a few kids.. now look what they did, they involved their kids in it. Another child of divorce in the land, torn between two or more worlds and the psychologist's bill from LAST month hasnt even been paid yet. Oy.

Upon rereading that.. it might sound pessimistic if it wasnt so true. Truth by reality we see all the time, hear about and more than a few of us experienced it firsthand one way or the other. Parents split? Say your peace. Have an ex-wife or two? Share the virtues of marriage. ::crickets chirp::

 

[darkwarrior3007]

"I believe close to what you both believe."

I'm not the only one.

"But, maybe a bit more. Possibly between ten to twenty thousand years old."

:hatsoff:

This is what you believe? You really aren't as smart as I thought you were.

 

[Skyraider22]

No Im married it is a two way street and you have to go into a marriage with a good heart It will be hard time but the good will out weigh the bad.It is what you make out of a marriage.Don't BS keep it real Marriages end because people think it is a game

 

[kristoflaw10]

According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America:


The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%

UK divorce rates
Main / Home www.divorcerate.org

We can change these figures...
Yes, we can!

 

[dewedge7]

I don't know that marriage is a bad investment......but the current stock market is worse than a divorce....I have half my money but still have my wife.

 

[broderic_randal]

yes

 

[Jagger69]

Not for me. It'll be 31 years and counting for me later this month. I'm wealthy in more ways than you can count from being married. From many aspects, marriage is a contractual arrangement that is rife with advantages. Divorce, on the other hand.....:eek: