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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
my brother is gonna br 50yrs old and has never been married, has no children. this was his choice, as he says he does not ever want to pay what he calls vaginamony.
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The thought of you saying that with your Jersey accent is hilarious.
 
Originally posted by: MoPHo
my girlfriend asked what i thought about marriage. rather than lie and not get her mad at me, i told her the truth. i told her i didn't really want to get married. she assumed i meant 'no, i just wanna have sex with every girl out there', which is true but i didnt mean it at the moment. her exact words were "i'm seriously contemplating our relationship".
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More likely, she though "great, I have no future with this guy"..
 
I do want to get married just for the fact that I want to have a couple of kids.
Life wouldn't be complete if I didn't help produce at least 1 offspring of myself.
 
I'm 31 and unmarried. I'm in no hurry. If I don't find anyone compatible, I definitely would not mind living life solo at all.
 
I dunno, I think I could have a good life single.

But it would probably be better married.

And, horror of horrors...my hardline "no kids" stance has softened lately😛

I'm getting old...
 
No way I am getting married before 35. I can't stand the way most women become very needy once you get married.
 
Originally posted by: alm99
Originally posted by: MoPHo
Originally posted by: GuileVsGuile
i wonder what happens to a man psycologically if he goes through life without a partner...or even more so...without a kid
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happiest and richest man...EVAR!!!!!
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but you die in your 40s of a heart attack because you don't have a wife nagging you about your habits
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At least it'll be a peaceful death 😉
 
Originally posted by: The Boss
No way I am getting married before 35. I can't stand the way most women become very needy once you get married.
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Haha. you should have:

- Ban the Attention Whore #2: sonz70 aka the c@ck sucker for money.
 
i dont think ill ever marry. cant see myself doing it.

i feel it changes things.

been in a relationship 11 years now. 2 kids. i refuse to marry.
 
Originally posted by: Papi
i dont think ill ever marry. cant see myself doing it.

i feel it changes things.

been in a relationship 11 years now. 2 kids. i refuse to marry.
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You guys haven't been given a commonlaw marriage yet?
 
at this moment in my life (19), kids are a definite no. i know my mind may change, but right now i dont want kids, now or later in my life. as for marriage, thats a touchy subject too. im not gonna say no, but im gonn wait till i get older.
 
Been there done that.. only real benifit was the tax breaks... so now I just don't file taxes.... if only it were that easy..
 
..half of all marriages end in divorce in the US..and it's worse yet in Europe. and 2nd marriages have a 75% failure rate. So what other investment are you willing to take a 50/05 chance on??
 
Originally posted by: MoPHo
my girlfriend asked what i thought about marriage. rather than lie and not get her mad at me, i told her the truth. i told her i didn't really want to get married. she assumed i meant 'no, i just wanna have sex with every girl out there', which is true but i didnt mean it at the moment. her exact words were "i'm seriously contemplating our relationship".
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Well, you are going to be dumped soon!
 
Originally posted by: ajayjuneja
Originally posted by: MoPHo
my girlfriend asked what i thought about marriage. rather than lie and not get her mad at me, i told her the truth. i told her i didn't really want to get married. she assumed i meant 'no, i just wanna have sex with every girl out there', which is true but i didnt mean it at the moment. her exact words were "i'm seriously contemplating our relationship".
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Well, you are going to be dumped soon!
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Word.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
..half of all marriages end in divorce in the US..and it's worse yet in Europe. and 2nd marriages have a 75% failure rate. So what other investment are you willing to take a 50/05 chance on??
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I'd say that's a misapplication of statistics, though. It's like saying that 50% of people have a STD...it may be true, but your chances are still fairly slim if you wrap up.
 
I see some people are married at 20 with kid and a mortgage and a car loan.

I'm 25 (stupid biatch reminded me I'm turning 26 this Sept 🙁 today, geez, thanks! ) and feel comfortable with myself to not have to go out and intentionally seek out a girlfriend just based out of peer pressure or parents telling me what I should or should not be doing at this certain age.

If I don't ever run into that special someone, then so be it. I'm not afraid of walking down the road alone. I'm not afraid of being postage stamped "loner" dieing old and alone.

I can do things and make decisions soley without having to run it by anybody. No kids or spouse depends on my income if I do something stupid and off myself accidentally (which I'll consider a blessing actually). I don't need to care about other people's feeling before doing things.


 
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Originally posted by: ajayjuneja
Originally posted by: MoPHo
my girlfriend asked what i thought about marriage. rather than lie and not get her mad at me, i told her the truth. i told her i didn't really want to get married. she assumed i meant 'no, i just wanna have sex with every girl out there', which is true but i didnt mean it at the moment. her exact words were "i'm seriously contemplating our relationship".
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Well, you are going to be dumped soon!
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Word.
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Yup, she is about to shag your best friend
 
not long ago, i told myself (and friends and family) that i'd never get married. i wanted to "live it solo" -- be on my own, do my own thing, and no, i wasn't having sex with anyone at that time (religious reasons and personal preference). i made little comments to my friends that if i ever do get married, i'd be a 65-year-old maid -- the last one of my group of friends to ever get married, if at all.

well, when you meet the right one, your feelings really change. i'll tell you that. i'm happily married and i'm glad i made this choice. sure, you can want to live independently, and there are things that will still enable you to be on your own while having someone to come home to. love is a wonderful thing but you need to seek it out or it needs to find you. if you think marriage is a horrible concept, try it. if it didn't work out, then it was a bad match -- so try again. eventually, you'll be REALLY happy.
 
In the eyes of society though people beleive that people should get married at a certain age, grow old, have mortgage, car loan, kids, insurance, etc... as part of the overall picture in seeking that joy and hapiness. Society pressures you and makes you think that you're sticking out like an eyesore if you're anything otherwise.

People ask me all the time "oh where's your girlfriend?" or "when are you going to get a girlfriend?" or "when are you getting married?" or "I can hook you up with somebody". Give it a bloody rest. I can run the course of my (pathetic? then so be it) life myself, thankyou very much. Don't try to force things to happen.
 
Nothing wrong with not getting married- I told my last gf I saw no reason to get married if we weren't having kids....she said she didn't know
if she even wanted kids, I didn't make enough money to support her at home raising them, and she split. Maybe there is a god lookin' out
for me 🙂

Oh, and divorce really, really sucks. Luckily I didn't have to pay alimony.
 
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