Investing in Marriage
What would you say to this stock tip. It is an American company, an institution that has been around since before this country's founding. Unlike Harvard, not everyone in it is smart and having fun. In the last few decades its performance has been tanking, and its products are of a much lower quality. Fifty percent of all new investors sell within the first year - most of them losing half of their initial investment in the process, and some investors somehow managed to get caught in lawsuits that took from their future income from other sources as well. If you buy, many extra obligations are put on you as a stockholder - ranging from giving up your ability to hold other stocks, to giving up your very individuality.
How many shares do you want?
Some of my friends and family have asked me when I am getting married. I have told them they are crazy - not for a long while. The trouble with marriage is that you are putting in a lot of time, effort, money and your very soul into a dangerous project - and you have a strong chance of failing. All on top of the fact that there is less sex. To me, that means that a) I want to wait until I am absolutely ready to handle the consequences of failure, b) I am going to find someone who is not interested in failing, and c) that someone has to be so incredible - that whatever hell she puts me through will feel like heaven.
Honestly, I don't even like it when girlfriends get attached. Some women are great - and only mean to clean you up and improve you, and make you into a gentleman and a better person. Others want to suck the blood out of you so you are too weak to fight back, and that's when the real torture begins.
This used to be just part of life - when the next promotion always went to the good family man, and no-strings attached sex with respectable girls was impossible to come by. Some men yearned for the sweet release from individuality and freedom - just so they could have the simple and Werther's Original perspective that their fathers and grandfathers had. A marriage used to be like an apple pie - a warm and sweet filling supported by a strong yet tasty and sorta flaky crust.
Unfortunately, times have changed. Women don't have to be doting wives and mothers anymore, who need their husbands to be sane so that they can perform well at work and get that promotion and extra social status. No longer its you and me against the world, its you and me so long as you don't piss me off and you still let me suck the lifeblood out of you.
No thanks.
another tale spun by ColeTrain @ 5:51 PM
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a friend of mine just recently got married..she said whenever anyone asked her about it (people she knew, people she didn't), no one ever said anything positive about being married or about their spouse, they all just gave her doubtful looks. i'm in NO rush..but i find that boys i date are..whoever thought that a boy would have a louder biological clock than i would..
Either the guy WANTS kids right away, or he needs to get you on lockdown. Or the rare case (these days) of him wanting to make you an honest woman. Committed relationships last for years these days, there is no reason for men to force the issue of marriage.
Also, men really don't have a biological clock. Unless cancer or indifference gets to us in old age - we can always hit a bull's eye.
yes, but that says nothing for not wanting to be the 90 year old dad in the kindergarten class..or be in the mall and asked if you're taking your granddaughter to see Santa. this is the type of biological clock i've seen..the type that makes them realize they are approaching 30 and thought they'd be playing video games with their kids not their friends still.
Then again, the 90 year old dad in kindergarten must have knocked one out when he was 85. I would be proud as hell - just like my dad was when he help conceive me at 42.
Unless you are independently wealthy or irrevokably poor - there isn't going to be a whole lot of time to be playing video games with the children. Hell, I'm single and I don't have much time to play video games by myself.
Certainly some men want to settle down right away - and many of them are silly, not all, but many. The reason is that their expectations may not come close to the expectations of their future wives, and we all know who is going to win out.
Hell, if women still followed the "Good Wife Guide," what man wouldn't want to get married? The difference in expectations is where a lot of divources today are coming from. The difference is many men, like myself, are smarter about with whom they settle down - and are looking for someone who at least somewhat conforms to a set of expectations - different from those in a relationship.
This sort of backward thinking is precisely why Cole will be the creepy guy in the club and having Thanksgivings at Denny's when he's in his mid forties.
You think so, anon?
If understanding the facts makes me backward, then fine. I'll own that.
I'd love to know who wrote this so I can drub you down properly, but as everyone who met me knows - I am charming and far from creepy. If you are a guy, why would you care if I spend my forties alone (not a bad prospect in this era)? Less competition for you. If you are a woman, why would you care? I am obviously not your type.
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