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awesome I won't live to see old age... that is fantastic news...thank you
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Originally Posted by cmacf1
I just did two google searches:
For the first, I got 33,200 hits. For the second one, I got ONE hit.
Admittedly, not all 33,200 hits were from peer-reviewed journals or based on scientifically obtained proof, but obviously, if that many articles mention that "married men live longer than single men" and only ONE mentions that "single men live longer than married men," logic tells me the first statement is more likely to be true.
In the ONE hit that stated "single men live longer than married men," the answer was: "because they want to." Not exactly a convincing reason.
I was going to add some quotes from the articles I found when I googled "married men live longer than single men," but you can find them yourself if you so choose.
Okay. I've held my tongue. But I'm now going to hold forth on this topic, pompous ass that I am.
Women, typically, derive much more satisfaction in domesticity than men do. By that I don't mean spending all day capering around the kitchen, brandishing a mop, while an apple strudel bakes in the oven, wearing a skirt and high heels. I mean that women take more pleasure in the home. The decorating of the home. The adding to the home. The garden around the home. It occupies their thoughts and imagination to a far greater degree than men.
Men, on the other hand, crave experience in their lives, even through the limited scope of television sports. Men want to go places, and do great things, even if they never actually detach themselves from the LazyBoy. They like the idea of doing these things, even if in the theoretical sense. This manifests itself in particular during a man's middle years. It's why they buy convertibles and sailboats in middle age, and why former Steady Eddie types suddenly lunge into mindless affairs with their executive assistants.
So when many men see matrimony coming up on their radar scopes, they take evasive action. Because while a woman, by and large, sees marriage as building a life together, a purpose unto itself, men tend to see marriage as the endless To-Do List, the weekend trips to Wal-Mart, the children's birthday parties, the mowing of the lawn. They see marriage is a distraction from the purpose of their lives, a endless, futile pursuit of a piece of cheese in a maze of their wife's construction.
Don't take my word for it. Go talk to about any 50-year-old man you can find. Ask him, "If you had your druthers, and all the money in the world, what would you do?" Chances are, he wouldn't say, "Why, I'd go back to work at Acme on Monday morning in the Accounts Receivable department." Their aspirations would typically involve travel or driving exquisitely nimble sports cars.
So many men see marriage as an interruption of this, and raising their children to be a 25-year-long surrender of their aspirations to the demands of little league baseball, orthodontists, and college admissions offices.
And that's why so many men avoid marriage in the first place.
Women have a way of beating men down into living lives that they wouldn't have otherwise....and they do it with sex and guilt.
Example: I'm perfectly fine living in a crap apartment if it means I can go flying or jet skiing on the weekends. My wife OTH would much rather live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood with lots of neighbor kids to play with our kids. Guess which life I live.
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