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Be a Man. Get Married.
Prager U ^ | May 9, 2016 | Brad Wilcox

Posted on 05/10/2016 10:47:16 AM PDT by fishtank

Be a Man. Get Married.

Published on May 9, 2016

Is bachelor life really the good life? Playing the field, traveling the world, and focusing on career sounds better than tying the knot. But is it possible that married men have more sex and make more money than their single counterparts? Brad Wilcox, sociologist at the University of Virginia, explains.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: adulthood; genderwars; manhood; marriage; married; oldmaid; sadiehawkins; singles
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To: fishtank
Marriage works for some, but not for others. I was never happy as a bachelor, but fell head over heels for my wife on our first date. Frankly, I can't imagine life without her.
61 posted on 05/10/2016 11:29:05 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: fishtank

Great advice for a guy.

Be a man....be a work horse?

Now where is the video for the women, and her expectations, or is she so precious, she is just expected to sit there and look pretty?

And people wonder why guys are avoiding marriage?


62 posted on 05/10/2016 11:31:06 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: tflabo

“We as a modern society mostly have rejected God and so we reject His design of marriage as it should be. No wonder we are a messed up nation.”

Yep.

Comments in this thread reflect it. And if we have it here in abundance, how much more so in the greater liberal sphere.


63 posted on 05/10/2016 11:31:18 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Everybody dies alone.


64 posted on 05/10/2016 11:32:08 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: fishtank

Married at 21, lasted for 20 years. Raised 3 great kids.

We grew apart and moved on amicably. No fighting. No cheating. She has her own career, her own money.

I bought a hot car and am having a blast. I’m 42. I couldn’t give you half their names if my life depended on it.


65 posted on 05/10/2016 11:32:27 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Kit cat

“Men today ARE NOT the MEN of yesterday!!!!”

They recognize that the system is rigged in favor of women and are choosing not to submit themselves to it.

Maybe when the system stops catering to females, maybe then they will be more willing to rejoin.


66 posted on 05/10/2016 11:32:34 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: fishtank

Did it twice. Two years, and 28 years. That’s enough.


67 posted on 05/10/2016 11:32:42 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: mad_as_he$$

Not true at all.


68 posted on 05/10/2016 11:33:23 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

If it floats flies, or fncks, tis better to rent it


69 posted on 05/10/2016 11:34:56 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: fishtank

The only thing they did was paint a target on their heads.

MGTOW video makers will vaporize this.


70 posted on 05/10/2016 11:35:49 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: waterhill

BUMP!


71 posted on 05/10/2016 11:38:24 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Giggles the pig for POTUS - 2016)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

I agree .. What’s the point of surviving a misspent youth and a twenty plus year marriage if you can’t ride a Motorcycle?


72 posted on 05/10/2016 11:42:23 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: tflabo

Yep-marriage and family are the foundation of a healthy society. God’s design for marriage brings blessings and joy.

It’s interesting and sad to read comments by men here. No fault divorce has born bitter fruit.


73 posted on 05/10/2016 11:42:38 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Shadow44

“Any woman can easily game the system to bleed a guy dry and dump him.”

In 1990, I was “bled dry and dumped” — by a MAN.


74 posted on 05/10/2016 11:42:56 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: TexasTransplant

“I agree .. What’s the point of surviving a misspent youth and a twenty plus year marriage if you can’t ride a Motorcycle?”

_____________________________________

Haha... I don’t consider any of my married life misspent. Three great kids. Wonderful times with my ex.

Chapter 2 now.


75 posted on 05/10/2016 11:47:05 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Rustybucket

“Nobody wants a divorce, but they are more common today than staying marriage. There are two distinct camps, the happy for the rest of your life camp. Sadly its the smaller camp, and the second camp, that one is the largest, and ends in divorce.”

You are correct about the existence of two camps. But the same professor (Wilcox) who is in this video has written that the alleged +50% divorce rate is misleading. Although it is true that about half of all marriages end in divorce, that number is skewed by the failure of second and third marriages for many people.


76 posted on 05/10/2016 11:55:54 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Kit cat
Marriage no longer passes the risk/reward test for men. That is why it is beginning to die. If you want men to marry, you don't turn it into a contract between man, woman and State, wherein man is saddled with all responsibility and no rights, and the near certainty of being financially raped when wifey decides she needs to "find herself" or whatever (and women file upwards of 75% of the time). Here's some food for thought: Divorce Corp.

Don't get me wrong--I think marriage was a beautiful thing in my grandparents' era, back when it was seen as a life committment by both parties, but in the age of no-fault divorce it's a raw deal for men. And let me finish by noting how sick I am of men always being given the blame for this sad state of affairs. There isn't exactly a surplus of marriage-worthy women out there these days. I don't mean "available," I mean worthy. Legal peril aside, men no longer marry because they have found that women no longer merit it. Look at our culture and consider the prospects for a young man. It is grim.

77 posted on 05/10/2016 11:59:48 AM PDT by Trod Upon (To be labelled "far-right" by modern journalists, one need do no more than NOT be far-left.)
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To: Trod Upon

You are not hanging around with the right group of women. :-)


78 posted on 05/10/2016 12:15:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: waterhill

Your “prince” is a depraved, degenerate hedonist who never found true happiness and is now burning in Hell. The end.


79 posted on 05/10/2016 12:17:06 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: VanDeKoik

I believe women are much more willing to just move in with men without being married!!!!why buy the cow when the milk is free!!!! I would NEVER have considered just moving in with any guy not when I was young anyway!!! NOW I might consider it just for companionship !!!


80 posted on 05/10/2016 12:18:25 PM PDT by Kit cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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