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If I were young, I would stay the hell away from women. I’ve been fairly lucky with a stable marriage and two fine kids. But I would not roll the dice a second time. Not today

I have to confess that I try not to think about the situation in which modern young people find themselves. It just depresses me. I’m 64 and was able to get an annual six figure income by simply going to a few months of programming school. And my wife and I are in absolute marital bliss but we also are not raising kids, and she doesn’t work outside the home. We’ve been married 20 years.

My first marriage produced three daughters and also lasted 20 years - total. and this article describes pretty much what happened. Just recently one of my daughters (now almost 40) said her mom hates men. Yeah, I finally figured it out.

Getting married today is far too risky - at least in the US. I’d not do it. I might marry someone from another country, but not an american woman. No way. It depresses me just thinking about the odds that it will not work - and that includes “christian” marriages like my first one. The divorce rate isn’t much better.

And it’s important to know that over 70% of marriages are brought by the wife.

We need to eliminate no-fault divorce.

All that said, I dearly love my wife and honestly did not think it could EVER be this good. But then, we’re both 64, Christian, and from a different generation.

"Getting married today is far too risky - at least in the US. I’d not do it. I might marry someone from another country, but not an american woman. No way."

You moved out to the hills for a reason and I'm sure most people around here accepted you for the good man that you are (I read your posts) but we don't need attitudes like that influencing our young. We have enough problems with drugs and govt handouts keeping new families from forming.

It's just a guess, but you're still hearing the phrase, "You're not from around here, are ya?" quite a bit, aren't you?