Seems like there is a bunch of us who’ve been burned by marriage showing up on these threads. I feel bad for all of you.
Agreed.
However, sharing such experiences with younger men is very helpful in surviving these family tragedies.
Men today are raised with a largely female oriented view of marriage. It is usually only later, through bitter experience, that they learn this view is the female “best case,” not something they are actually prepared or willing to produce.
“Seems like there is a bunch of us who’ve been burned by marriage showing up on these threads. I feel bad for all of you.”
I got burned pretty badly in my first marriage. I ended up paying child support and alimony, even though she was the one screwing around.
She remarried a year after the divorce. I went to court to get the alimony stopped but the judge refused to because SHE had to petition to stop it. How whacked is that?
I paid alimony for another six years until they were audited by the IRS. That somehow got the alimony stopped. By that time a different judge was hearing the case and ordered their tax refunds diverted to me until the overpayments were returned to me. I got every penny of their tax returns for eight years. Small justice for the years I went broke.
The ex would take me to court every time something happened.
I remarried, back to court.
She heard my wife was pregnant, back to court.
Our boys were born, back to court.
She had a fight with her husband, back to court.
And I had to pay her attorney fees every time.
The last time she had me in court five times in two and a half months.
The judge had finally had enough and told her not to come back.
My second wife was an angel through the whole mess. She NEVER wavered and stood with me through it all.
She gave me the best thirty years of my life.
There are men out there who treat their wives like disposable servants and some who leach off women. I’ve known both types.
I knew a beautiful gal that got pregnant her senior year. Very rare at the time.
She married the guy and they ended up with two kids.
The problem was he never grew up.
They made good money but he spent a lot of it on his hobbies; hunting, fishing and drinking.
As soon as the kids were grown she divorced him.
You’re not the only lady that drew the short end of the stick.