Desdinova said:
I know damn well I wouldn't be signing another one. I don't even want another woman to live with me. Do you know what sucks though? All the damn pressure from family members to find another wife. When I start dating a new girl, right away my dad starts analyzing what kind of a wife she'd be for me. My cousin's no better. I told him I'll never get married again, and his response was, "Yes you will, I know you will."
Only now do I realize that today's legal system has no punishment for the one who fvcked up the marriage. Those vows that a couple recite to each other? They used to have value. They were promises that neither of you would fvck up the marriage. If someone fvcked up the marriage, they would be the one who pays for it. No-fault divorce put an end to that.
If we didn't have no-fault divorce here, that bytch would have paid dearly because of the proof I have that she screwed around. The only use proof has nowadays is to get the divorce started earlier than one year of separation. What good is that?
With low-quality women in abundance and divorce laws giving no justice, marriage is too risky of a gamble.
Correct, anybody who invests based totally on tradition and not on present day analysis, they are surely bound to lose. It's great to point to the history of an investment (over the last 20 years) of returning 12% per year on average but what is the present day analysis of that investment for the NEXT 20 years? Because that's what really matters.
Marriage is an investment, period. But Marriage used to be a good investment during a time period with low inflation/low cost of living, when there was the need of only ONE person to work, and also during the time period when there was actual REAL housework that needed to be completed due to the lack of automation/technology.
Based on that, you needed someone out working and you needed someone in the house, and inflation was low as well as cost of living being low, so the one person working was enough to cover the entire expenses of the family.
That began to change to the point where the woman HAD to contribute at least part-time towards the expenses due to the raising cost of living and flat-lining of incomes, this is around the time white men allowed for Women's Liberation because similar to white men freeing black people and eliminating Jim Crow, the entire point wasn't "to be fair" but it was all about what was
best for business if you know what I mean.
Now women can work, vote, become educated, run major companies, etc., basically they can do anything that men can do from a service or logic based situation. It's now to the point where a lot of women make more money than their men (especially in the black community).
Based on this, when you look at Marriage, the critical issue is that Men and Women DO NOT need each other anymore for survival. The relationship is now TOTALLY based on utility, which means as long as I'm being entertained, as long as I'm happy, everything is GOOD. The moment I'm not, I want out. And this is why Divorce rates have skyrocketed (in combination with the updates to the Divorce laws being made making it easier to get out).
So the reason MOST Marriages are failing is really because there's no damn real reason why anybody needs to stay with anybody for the rest of their life anymore. It's not based on survival, the entire relationship is based on utility...which isn't bad per say, but utility isn't something that is long-standing and is very fickle.