Yes marriages in the U.S. end 50% of the time, but don’t forget to look at the whole picture. Non-marital long term relationships end 85% of time. So if you’re really worried about percentages, you should stay out of ALL relationships.

Marriage is also dead…until want kids. Since most women and men eventually want kids, here’s some things to look at if you want to skip marriage and do it alone:

1. Seventy-two percent of all teenaged murderers grew up without fathers.

2. Sixty percent of rapists were raised in fatherless homes.

3. Seventy percent of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in a single-parent environment.

4. Three of four teen suicides occur in single-parent families.

So the Divorice rate is 50%, what about the other 50% that stick it out. The ugly truth is that most relationships fail because one or both parties are only concerned about one thing, themselves. Unfortunately these people never really experience what true love is all about beacuse real love requires sacrifice, service and committment. If you’re not ready for that, than by all means don’t get married. On the otherhand, if you don’t want to grow old alone, you may want to get a pet. Sooner than later your age will catch up with you and you won’t get as many offers for dates.

Marriage is not a ‘reason’ to spend your life with someone, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is dead. It works for those who find love and want to seal it legally. The problem is there are too many people marrying for financial reasons and children, not for love. Love is an after-thought. I’m not going by statistics but life experiences. People need to step back and weigh the pros and cons of marriage. Just because you want marriage does not necessarily mean you should do it. Want and need are two different things. Marriage is a serious decision that deserves serious thought.

I have been with my hight school sweet heart for almost 13 year now we are not married and we have 3 wounder full children and marriage is not in the cards for us we where engaged in the beginning but after some tries and tribulations we have encountered along the way I think that we have come to the point in our relationship that what the point things are fine the way they are we don’t need a marriage license to to make it right this is working for us and i would be afraid to change it although i would love to live the experience of a bride

Okay…here’s my take ….

Women are the full time culprits to the ‘You got to marry me’ business. Women position themselves and men into the whole, “I can be with you forever” crap and can barely see past the show sale signs let alone what the hell forever is all about.

Men, on the other hand, fall for the whole bullshit “I’ll take care of you” routine that dates back to sucking on mama’s tit. Women know this and when the dating is all good … she is literally wiping the man’s ass to keep him. Buying him anything, doing anything for him … women/fellas you know what I’m talking about … she’s a willing and grateful slave … then when she gets married, the whole things goes bat-screw.

Sex drops 80%, and the man should have seen this cumming because you simply can’t eat the same food for the rest of your life. And what’s worse, the food gets boring. No matter how many ways you twist and turn it, new games or new toys … it’s the same woman and American society WANTS you to check out ‘What’s new and sexier’. How can ANYONE defend themselves against the onslaught of sex and imagery and still want the woman that’s getting flabby around the waist and doesn’t want to get freaky like she use to…or (here’s the punch line) … you have kids so you have to schedule your sex.

Scheduled sex. That’s what happens when you get married. When before, it was spontaneous … fun … sudden … Now it’s wondering if you have the time, stressed about bills and arguing all the time.

Cheating relieves the pain temporarily because both partners are stuck by a legal contract that, once fucked up, can be very expensive. Sometimes, either party will take the chance just to find happiness when it wasn’t with the person they thought they would be happy with. For men, it means sex and the type of girl that served him BEFORE she turned into lazy no-sexy.

For women, it means she wants the man that did anything to get a piece of her prior to the angry, frustrated and the non-communicative husband she married.

In conclusion: Marriage is only for those small town hicks that grew up without TV and cable. They marry their high school sweethearts and stay within a small community like Pleasantville, raise a couple of kids and maintain their sights on only themselves.

Or… Marriage is for people starting at age 50 and above. By this time, they had all the pussy and dick they need, been there and done that … now they can relax.

So there it is … don’t marry until you fart dust or only if you live in a bubble so you can avoid living in Sodom and Ghemora with the rest of us.

Hey, but don’t ask me … ask Anna Nicole Smith.

I agree unfortunately men marry when they don’t want to because if they don’t the women they may actually love leaves them. The women leave them as they are bowing the social pressure from friends and family or believe a man would if he loved them.

Women also get the large end of the stick here as marriage laws are still imposing responsibility legally on men and women make out with half their stuff but otherwise aren’t subject to any of the old fashioned responsibilities women bore in marriage unless they choose so.

As to fatherless children lots of women today lie and stop taking birth control to get pregnant without the guys consent knowing either way they have a check a judge is giving them for the next 18 years and can move in with their new boyfriend. They also know they always tend to get custody so if they are bored in marriage and want to date other guys they just walk away.

Some people truly believe in vowing before God to spend their lives in sickness and health with another person. For these people it has significance and they tend not to divorce as much. For the rest of us it’s an expensive corporate invention. When else would a sane person ever consider paying 3,000 for a cake ? It’s a cake yes it’s big , yes it tastes good but you still paid 2-3k for a cake.

It’s a party, a conquest , spectacle, but not something to give an ultimatum over. Has little to do with love, commitment or much of anything else unless you really hold those values to be independent of the marriage in the first place but feel the need to unite under Gods permission.

How many people really fall in the category and why is everyone else so determined to get married ? Mother, father, kids, family none these things require marriage. Why not just forgo the legal aspect and make it just a spiritual ceremony ? Oh and many single parent homes, and fatherless kids come out of broken marriages.

Marriage is shallow and materialistic and the diamond ring was invented by the diamond cartel. The idea that a man must spend two month salary on a worthless (and yes diamond were actually common for the last 50 years even before they started being able to cheaply create them in a lab.) I will marry the day a women buys me an engagement , or some other other worthless object for 2 months salary so I can show it off to my guy friends to brag and prove she’s a catch.