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Wrong. There isn't enough information to draw a conclusion. You say this shows women are becoming increasingly picky. But I could just as easily say it shows that men are the ones being picky. And all I have to do to support my claim is cite posts like the one above by NotARedneck.If it's true that, as he claims, more and more men see marriage as a high risk activity, then that would explain why many are still single and why there are so many women who are still single. Maybe they keep meeting these single men who say "no thanks"to getting married.
I don't take her plans to marry seriously since it was always politically motivated. But at least she figured out what a loser Levi was BEFORE they actually got married.
The divorce rate is 3 times what it used to be a generation ago. As a male you'd have to be stupid or have nothing to loose to risk something like marriage today. You've got a 50/50 shot that your woman will ditch you, take your kids and take half your paycheck for the next 18 years. That is what goes through many guys heads nowadays, and more and more men are catching on to it.
The statistic is meaningless since it doesn't include how many are gay and want to marry but cannot. A lot of my friends would fall into this category even though they have been in committed relationships for over 10 years, but can't get married to their life partner.
I don't take her plans to marry seriously since it was always politically motivated. But at least she figured out what a loser Levi was BEFORE they actually got married.
The wedding could be on again next week. Mom has already put a deposit down on the caterers and has a garage full of party favors. Can't waste that!
Do you have a source for that? You got me to google and I found this...
"At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago." (Divorcewizards.com)"
Nothing seems to be that simple any more. Not that things were simple in the past, but...wow. I'm a bit blown away by it.
The divorce rate is 3 times what it used to be a generation ago....
I believe you're completely wrong about that. I don't know the latest figures, but the trend has been downward for the past 30 years. I'd say 25-30 years is a generation....
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"The divorce rate in 2005 (per 1,000 people) was 3.6 -- the lowest rate since 1970, and down from 4.2 in 2000 and from 4.7 in 1990. (The peak was at 5.3 in 1981, according to the Associated Press.)"
I'm only in my 30's and I am shocked at how much I feel the culture has changed even in just two decades. My observation of society in general is a lot of confused, unhappy people out there. You have men acting like women and women acting like men. It seems like thanks to modern communications, everyone is connected yet more alone than ever.
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