More women are asking for prenups

Sun Sentinel ^ | September 18, 2005 | Georgia East

[Caipirabob]

Over a casual dinner, Rachel Kaplan turned to her boyfriend and asked, "You're open for a prenup, right?"

Darren Waldohlz, 38, a partner in a successful speed-dating business, admits he was caught off guard. But he said he realized a prenuptial agreement would protect the house he owns, too.

"It's not that I plan to get divorced," says Kaplan, 23, a single mom from Fort Lauderdale, who has a sizable inheritance. "I have to protect myself and my daughter."

While men are still more likely to seek a prenup, "women are becoming a more dominant force," said attorney Alan Braverman, who has offices in Fort Lauderdale and Boynton Beach.

Experts attribute the change to women marrying later or more than once.

"It's not uncommon in today's world that women are entering marriages with assets and stock options," said matrimonial attorney Jacqueline Valdespino, in Coral Gables. "Now both sides have equal bargaining power."

[Libloather]

If that means I am out of my NUPS, so freakin be it.

So - you're nupless? I've heard the effects of losing your nups can make you irritable, aimless and, sometimes, downright mean. See?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Are you a Muslim? You sure sound like one.

[najida]

Sorta reminds you of that Groucho Marx saying
"I won't be a member of any club that'd have me!"

[Conspiracy Guy]

Do you consider your hand to be a woman? That is about as close as you'll ever get to one.

[Conspiracy Guy]

You must be talking theoretically

[najida]

Oh man,
First the link to the Donna Reed Show
(The woman cleaned house in HIGH HEELS, fercryinoutloud)

Now the 'paid mistress stuff'....

Hmmm, I can point you to a few websites where you might find women who fit your 'needs'. I mean, if you get off on the fantasy of it all ;).

[MortMan]

My wife and I agreed we didn't have anything worth anything except each other.

[Conspiracy Guy]

What about olive oil or wool?

Twit.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Virgin

[Conspiracy Guy]

You are no libertarian.

[najida]

Men are virgins too--
They may not have evidence to the contrary,
but the untried state may apply to both.--

In the dictionary- --
vir·gin (vûr'jin) --
n. A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.

[najida]

I'm one of those women who's noticed the 18 wheelers full of Samsonite that some guys travel with.

Maybe the difference is that when 'they' talk about it, it's just letting off steam, venting, or they're just discussing the past or whatever ;) Sorta like we have purses and you have briefcases. Same purpose, different name.

It's just as hard for us to deal with also.

[najida]

LOL!!

Thank you hun!
I'm saving that!

[chris1]

Don't try to explain that to some on FR. Its useless in many cases.

[chris1]

You are completely delusional, at best.
The reality is that 50% of marriages fail. That is a fact, like it or not. Although one person maybe moral and have great intentions, life common sense, and experience, tells us that other may nevertheless fall from grace. Why should the good one get F'ed by giving 50% of his or her assets to that person?

[trussell]

You're welcome najida...looked appropriate for the way this thread was going!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I think your right.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I thank you for your encouragement.
This is not a perfect world we live in, and all of us can agree ( at least agree on one thing ) that this world is really messed up.
I try to forgive others, and at times, I think I have achieved that, but, once we think we have gotten passed that obstacle, that old bitterness comes back, and your right, it's so difficult to deal with it.
However, the Lord commands us to forgive as he forgave us.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

No.... I don't condemn her , I tried my best to forgive her, I try my best to love my mom, to forgive my mom, but, as my step father , my dad, my mom's sister, and other people around her can tell you , she can be a difficult person to get along with, and she was this way even before she meet my dad.
Have you ever tried to love someone , try to be nice to someone, try to respect someone, but ? only to get back sarcasm, negativity, and just plain hurtful, nasty, saying things to provoke you to anger, and just being nasty back to you for no good reason ?
I'll do my part to love her, to forgive her, and respect her, and honor her, and be nice to my mom, but, I expect and the rest of the family and people around her expect to be treated decent as humans.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I am only against women who take men for a ride because it's a game to them, or a women who thinks it's her womanly RIGHT to take a man for all he's worth.
If I see a man who were to take advantage of a woman's finances, or take her for all she's worth, I consider that wrong also.