Men here throw out statistics about 27%, 40%, 50% of marriages end in divorce.
What about everybody else? What about all the millions of happily married people out there? I don't buy the whole "oh well, they aren't happy anyway..."
Bull Crap. Many of them ARE happy. Many are PROUD of their marriages & children & families. They wear their marriage as a badge of success.
They smugly enjoy all the benefits that ITDG listed.
If a man wants marriage, don't apologize for that desire. Learn to choose wisely and vet properly. The DJ skillset can assist with that.
Those who squawk about no women etc etc etc all women being trash etc couldn't see a great woman if she were right before their eyes. They don't believe worthy women exist. That's like saying the Earth is flat. Some men are getting married and having success enjoying the benefits of the married lifestyle, so it DOES exist. It's not fantasyland at all.
Just makes those doing the squawking sound fearful and paranoid and imprisoned by a belief system that trusts no one.
And don't cry to me about financial risk. I was the spouse with the assets. I have been through family court (I managed to negotiate a settlement without going to court because I was at severe risk financially) with over 1M at stake plus minor kids and custody. I've been faced with that fire. Life has risk. Risk can be managed but never eliminated.
I don't care if people get married or not, but to fail to acknowledge that there are plenty of successful marriages out there in the world is kind of like denial of gravity.
You don't have to believe in gravity. But if you don't believe in it and you act on that faulty belief, you'll be just as dead stepping off a 10 story building. Gravity doesn't care what you think. It exists irrespective of what you believe.
Good happy marriages exist too, whether or not people here have seen one. Just because it's not something you've experienced doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Work on yourself. Become a man worth marrying and suddenly you'll be recognized by worthwhile women.