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You are saying that attractive women want to date attractive men. OMG, how dare they!
I guess they didn't get the memo that they should be dating unattractive men with crummy jobs and bad personalities.
Really! The 6 foot and modelesque standard is off (too specific and not necessarily what every woman wants), but physical attraction is not unreasonable to ask if you yourself qualify as such.
Back on topic, I was reading that the probability of an adult getting married at some point during their lifetime is still nearly 90 percent. Those are excellent odds if you ask me.
Source: Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and Family in America Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
You are saying that attractive women want to date attractive men. OMG, how dare they!
I guess they didn't get the memo that they should be dating unattractive men with crummy jobs and bad personalities.
Then you go on to say that quality women are as rare "unicorns". Sounds a lot like the pot calling the kettle black, doesn't it?
No because a 6 foot plus man is about 15% of the population.
Cross reference that with a 6 foot GOOD looking man, with decent income....you are gonna get about 3% of the population.
If you consider yourself top 3% in looks for a woman, then by all means go for it. But I reckon most girls here are just average at best and demanding the top 3% of men.
Back on topic, I was reading that the probability of an adult getting married at some point during their lifetime is still nearly 90 percent. Those are excellent odds if you ask me.
Source: Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and Family in America Today (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Probability of getting married is 90% and probability of getting divorced is 50%...you do the math.
A spokesperson for the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics told me that the rumor appears to have originated from a misreading of the facts. It was true, he said, if you looked at all the marriages and divorces within a single year, you'd find that there were twice as many marriages as divorces. In 1981, for example, there were 2.4 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces. At first glance, that would seem like a 50-percent divorce rate.
Virtually none of those divorces were among the people who had married during that year, however, and the statistic failed to take into account the 54 million marriages that already existed, the majority of which would not see divorce.
Urban myths that are repeated over and over and over with no backing just bug the heck out of me.
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You're, once again, making many poor assumptions. That people that remain unmarried aren't happily remaining unmarried and that they are single; also that people that divorce have children, and have costly divorces. Not a single person I know that divorced had a costly one with lawyers battling it out.
Is marriage a risk? Sure. Doing almost anything worthwhile is a risk. But if you don't want to get married, don't, no sweat off my back.
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