[CapnJack]

OK, I'll put my flame suit on for this ...

I'll tell you costs too high ... divorce!

As a guy, you felt like you were raped, robbed, and kicked in the fact with glass covered boots.

When everything you worked for and built for 17 years gets cut down the middle + 30% (for her side) ... cohabitation looks damn good to me.

Think what you want, but that little marriage license means she has you by the short and curlies and she makes the rules (with the government's backing) when she wants out.

[RoadTest]

I think you need ADAM - American Divorce Association for Men, I think makes the acronym.

[Knitebane]

Do you know why divorce costs so much?

Because it's worth it.

[Gauchau]

Right on! I f you have a set of nuts in the US, you are the enemy. You have to rights...and people thought that slavery was repealed! Any man with a career and or assets knows that if and when he says I Do, he will end up saying “ I did what”...in front of a judge as he is stripped down to his ankles.

[goat granny]

As a female, I agree with you....the guy always gets it in the end...don’t know why any man would want to marry in todays world. I’ll put on my flame suit also...:O)

[hot4plasma]

As a divorced guy, I can say you are completely correct. They call the shots and walk away with a second income, tax free, to boot. It’s just amazing how stupid men are before they get married.

[StraightShooter69]

I could not agree more. And in “No Fault” divorce states with Community Property like Arizona it is even worse. One day she decides that she is “not happy” and the next you are living in the back of your car, paying $4500 on a mortgage on a home you are not allowed to set foot in, no longer allowed to see your children until you have been to court and robbed, and basically given up half of what you worked for your entire life for 15 months of marriage to a woman who did absolutely nothing but spend your hard earned money!

So, to all of those who think living together is a bad idea, I say no way. I used to believe that but no more. I can be committed just as well in or out of marriage. If a woman wants that piece of paper, then she can voluntarily offer to sign a prenup and then I may consider it. Otherwise, I am more than a wallet and will not participate in a system that sees me as nothing else.

[TET1968]

I think Divorce lawyers funded this study.

[IAmNotAnAnimal]

No need for a flame suit when you speake the truth

I was deployed overseas, came home, ex-wife had run up all my credit cards and found greener pastures and took my 6 year old son with her - My reward: a “feminist” Judge, lost 60% of my earnings, got all the bills, paid the mortgage for her and her boyfriend, and as a “bone” thrown to me, I get to see my son twice a month while paying child support

P.S. I now cohabitate