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I don't date without thinking of marriage - I am not about notching belts and I am not about one-night-stands. I don't move without a reason because I am better than that and I trust the person I date is better than that as well.
In my recent past there was a woman who was too immature, and I tossed her back for someone else at some other time, but not for myself then or ever. We were together for two years. I'm better for it. She? I don't care. I don't keep in touch.
I can say yes , there is a high chance I would dump her after giving her plenty of time to come around.
she would need a very good reason to keep saying no. If it had anything to do with me... I'd most likely break it off.
Put a ring on it, or "make her an honest woman" etc etc etc.....
LOL....... it's funny... in a detached comical way.....
Actually Chow for some things have changed.Women have education, good jobs, income, can adopt, take care of their sexy time with fabulous toys, have fun with the help just like a man can.
Some really don't need a man.In some homes the women are in charge.Why marry ,everything is in her name even the children have her name.
Put a ring on it, or "make her an honest woman" etc etc etc.....
LOL....... it's funny... in a detached comical way.....
I am starting to think it depends on the age-group and maybe if a person has been married before. I always figured women wanted marriage more until I started dating again. I've had men bring up marriage (technically re-marriage) on the first darn date! I am starting to think in their 20s and 30s women hear the clock tick, ticking and if they want to be a wife and mother, there is a bit more urgency to marry than their male counterparts. But later in life (when a lot of people are divorced) it's more men than women who want to marry again.
I am dating mostly guys in their late 30s, 40s, early 50s. Like I said, first dates and men are talking about marriage... not necessarily asking me to marry them (although that's happened too) but they bring it up as their "goal" of dating and want to know if I am on the same page. Even in threads on this forum where I said I just want to date casually and not commit to anything serious yet, I get shot down by men who basically say, "well, yeah... good luck finding a man interested in that. If you aren't serious he's going to move along to someone else."
I used to think exactly like you and thought I was "safe" from re-marriage... but now it's like the world turned upside down on me
It would be interesting though to see what things look like with younger, never married people. All I can find when I google it is less women want to marry now (or at least less women care about marrying) then in the past... but I can't find much of anything about men other than from opinion pieces and blogs.
It would be interesting though to see what things look like with younger, never married people. All I can find when I google it is less women want to marry now (or at least less women care about marrying) then in the past... but I can't find much of anything about men other than from opinion pieces and blogs.
I'm in my 20's and have had two men propose to me that I had to turn down. I was honest about not wanting to get married, and they chose not to listen. I've also never been married.
Oh, for what it's worth and in the spirit of the thread. Yes, when I've told men I am not interested in marrying, they dropped me. But I wouldn't call it dumping me or rejecting me or anything like that as I was never in a long-term relationship with any of those guys.
But that's a completely different situation than what the OP is asking. But it's kind of in the same spirit as the question. It's just that they had a goal to marry and since I couldn't promise I'd ever be interested, they wanted to move on to someone else. As weird as I found it that they brought up the idea of marriage so soon, maybe it's a good thing they brought it up so early... before we wasted each other's time/got too attached to each other.
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