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

that one benefit would be that one time they probably will have sex with you, surely??

 

Obviously the OP has no conception of this phenomenon.

 

That's not so bad, the rest of them end in death

More seriously though, whilst we may be bitter and cynical, a lot of people are still hopeful, naïve and probably traditionally minded.
Marriage for them ticks a whole stack of boxes on the "success" checklist.

So I would say that there still is an incentive for males to get married, just not all of them.

 

Yup, couldn't agree with you more. It's a rite of passage, in terms of becoming societies idea of what is a successful person.

 

Easy solution.. hire a housekeeper/cook & prostitute.

 

If the spouse malfunctions can we trade them in too?

 

I think that it happens far more than we like to think it does.

 

Might just need an oil change...

 

oil change for the spouse??? Did u marry your car or is your spouse Rosie from the old Jetson show?

 

Tangental comment pursuant to malfunctioning spouse. I wouldn't be able to take being married to Rosie... too many animated conversations on Saturday mornings.

 

The way you describe it is rather depressing. It is like you (or any man) would be doing us women a favor by marrying us.

And you know, if you get a divorce and she earns more than you then you get money out of it. Women just don't usually make more because after all that time in the kitchen, the workplace is having trouble getting used to having us around. Or something.

Not all women expect men to support them. Not all men expect women to be their maids. Pretty cool how the world has changed in my opinion. Even so, man or woman, I do not think I like the idea of being married.

 

Marriage is still good, because if you're all alone then you have to do everything by yourself all the time. If you're married, you can take turns... or share responsibilities. Also, maybe you like each other.

 

lmaoo (ur joking, rite? oh-well)

you're saying you can't be with other people and share the same responsibilities (as you put it) w/o being married? you can't "like" someone without getting married? of course you can.

then - why get married?

 

I don't understand why some people are so threatened by the life decisions of others, which affect them not at all...

People who live together become common-law here anyway, and if you split up it can get just as messy, as a friend recently found out. He thought it would be fine if his g/f moved in with him (in the house he owns)...then he found out he could not make her leave without going through a divorce-type situation with lawyers and such. With kids it would be worse.

If people are so dead set against marriage, they should not say it's ok to just live with someone, because YES it's the same thing and it's therefore hypocritical. Get a real argument.

 

i don't see the point for most of the marriages i've witnessed. but it's not my business.

 

Because it's a sacred bond between two people who love each other very deeply and also all the cool people do it, and Jesus will send his demons to rape you if you have sex outside of marriage.

 

Alimony is a crock of shit in a can.

 

Your family and friends stop trying to set you up.

 

Best answer in the thread!

 

i think it has to come from us, ourselves, inside, whatever.... doesn't mean we don't get pissed off or anything, and doesn't mean that we don't move on/away from someone, just means that the reaction comes from as closer loving response as possible... and lasting love will find you, in all its gloriously perfect imperfection.

yup... has to be love coupled with a deep intimacy, that you will find in no other type of relationship...

having said that, you don't necessarily need to get married... but getting married protects you in ways where you might otherwise be vulnerable were you to just co-habit... in the eyes of the law, in anycase... if we lived a tribal life, there would be ceremony of a different and appropriate sort...