Should only Broke men get married? (dating, wife, husbands, older)

[ScarletG]

The Red Pill forum is over at reddit.

[soy sauce]

Good luck in finding a woman willing to marry a broke man.

[katharsis]

I think that any marriage with financial considerations as the primary motivation for it is doomed -- and that goes for men AND women.

[Checkered24]

There is so many advantages to being broke.

[Sommie789]

Actually,Women are worse off in divorce than Men

[Mikala43]

Originally Posted by SD4020

The only time alimony becomes an issue is when there's a 50% difference in income. Most cases that isn't an issue. An unmarried man sires a child he is still liable to pay child support to the mother independent of marriage.

This. I don't know how many times I have posted to men here that they really, really should consider the financial status (work, retirement, etc.) of a woman they may marry. I don't know many couples who have divorced and even less that have paid alimony, including my husband.

Child support? Of course..... you need to contribute financially and personally to any life you make.

[The Dissenter]

I personally don't think any man should get married if he can help it. But if a rich dude wants to get married, fine, just make sure you have a super tight prenup reviewed by the best lawyer you can find.

[cyphorx]

Originally Posted by Bayarea4

The OP's premise assumes that:

1. All women earn less than all men.
2. Divorce always benefits the woman and never the man.
2. Women see men only as a source of income and a baby daddy.
3. All marriages will end in divorce, and it's always the woman's fault.
4. All wives cheat.
5. Men should not be obligated to support their children if the woman leaves them for another man.


Any man who holds such negative, cynical, stereotyped assumptions about women should never marry, no matter how rich or poor he is, because it won't end well.

Good points.

1. 60% of the top 10% are male 90% of the top 1% are male(even though in the rest of the population women are starting to out earn males).

2. so far only 6 states have gender neutral laws, 80% of alimony is paid to females nation wide.

3. not all, but enough do to make it worth the risk.

4. 70% of divorces are files by women, and we have a 50% divorce rate. my parents were married 53 years, these days thats the exception not the rule.

5. actually no, unless they come to live with him, if a woman no longer wants the man she should not be entitled to his money. exceptions being if he beat her or the kids. if she left because he was bored, then tough luck.

Actually every man sitting in divorce court having his life ripped away is having it done at the behest of a woman that claimed at one time to love them.
Not all women are bad, but enough are that men should protect themselves.

[Mikala43]

While I do believe that the current court system favors women/mothers, it is a rebound from when women/mothers had almost no rights. I think the pendulum needs to swing to the middle.

I call bull on only supporting your kids in certain situations, that's not how it works. People get divorced for all kinds of reasons, and it is no ones business the details. The divorce rate is not 50% but those with personal agendas are not going to look at the math/data to see that.

Bottom line, if you do not want to get married, don't. You don't need to post some manifesto to the world to live your life how you want.

[ncsualum2004]

Originally Posted by cyphorx

Actually every man sitting in divorce court having his life ripped away is having it done at the behest of a woman that claimed at one time to love them.
Not all women are bad, but enough are that men should protect themselves.

And yet divorced men are more likely than divorced women to get remarried...

Poor people are far less likely to married (the reasons should be obvious). Instead successful educated people are more likely to be married to people like themselves.

ps: the divorce rate isn't 50% and hasn't been for a while.