There is now NO incentive for a man to get married...

100 years ago when a man got married, the father of the girl would offer a reward (dowry) to the man. The woman would respect the new husband and it was the woman's primary mission to make sure the husband was well taken care of.

50 years ago, pretty much the same thing. It was the woman's job to meet the needs of her husband and her primary goal was to take care of the husband

20 years ago, women stopped worrying about the husband and concentrated on themselves. Husband had no clean house to go to, no dinner waiting for him at home, no woman making an attempt to keep her shape/appearance up for the husband

now, youre lucky if you get home and she pops a pizza in the oven for you. cheating is rampant and they can deny sex whenever and for however long you want.

if you divorce, she takes half and god forbid you have a kid, you'll be paying for the next 20 years


In 2010, tell me 1 benefit a man has left in being married...

 

free blowjobs?

 

Love?

 

Is this all under the assumption women have no free will?

 

I would say that the incentive is now to marry someone suitable, not just the first woman who someone will pay you to marry.
This is not a bad thing in my eyes.

I hear over there in those states of yours that there are other major financial reasons to get married too, which won't be going away soon either...

 

I assume you're suggesting there's a tax advantage to being married (without kids) because there's not.

My wife and I get RAPED on taxes while all the breeders around us get tons of incentives for having their crotch fruit.

 

not an incentive to get married. She can do this without a ring and a contract

 

Why did you get married if there is no incentive?

I wasn't aware that I was supposed to pay a man to be my life partner. Good thing he did it for free...sucker!

 

I think you'll find that the tide really began to turn when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

There are still countries out there with women who still think they were born to please men, we're just not living in one of them.

I want a partnership, not an employer.

And btw, my husband comes home to hot meal on the table and clean laundry. He appreciates every bit of it. My "crotch fruits" are better off having me at home.

 

Love

Well that was easy :tongue:

 

I suspect that we are finding out the hard way what not having a stay at home parent is costing... except that we're slow to make the connection between the disintegration of the community and the large scale absence of an adult physically in the home during the day. I suspect that it was as much stay-at-home moms who kept neighborhoods and communities as closely knitted as they once were.

BTW I cracked up at the "crotch fruit" references...

 

would you prefer an indonisain child? or perhaps a late 18th - early 19th century black man? or maybe you would like some chineese workers to stay in your basement? no? how about some poor unfortunate mexicans?.... well you need to get with the times and if you want a slave i suggest you move to somewhere distant.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8875065

From the abstract.

'Prior literature has shown that married men live longer than unmarried men. Possible explanations are that marriage protects its incumbents or that healthier men select themselves into marriage.'

 

Maybe we can change things back to the way they used to be.

 

In Canada (or maybe just Ontario)...a married man gets roughly a 50% discount on car insurance

there are also other benefits like half of wifes pension and stuff like that but they have to die first

 

lol

 

financial benefits.
but yeah most of it is social expectations and such. i agree that people need to change their mind about love, cuz in so many people's minds love automatically means this one kind of idea.

ya

 

love. blowjobs. all of those good answers make marriage sound comforting. also i want to have kids. having kids without a wife is an odd situation

 

Thats probably the best thing on earth to have