Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 50% statistic is misleading. Isn't it between 60-67% of first marriages that succeed, with multiple divorcees bringing the total divorce numbers the rest of the way up?

Yeah, something that works almost 2 out of 3 times must be completely obsolete.

Lady, you'll have a leg to stand on when more than half of first marriages fail. Not sooner.

Dr.Knockboots: Umm, if they were together for 20years, and they were good to each other, fostered great relationships in and out of the family, raised kids.. etc..
Then I'd say their marriage was successful. Who defines a successful marriage as one that ends when a partner dies? That's bs..

You played for the same team for 20 years.. that's a hell of a track record. Congrats.. now go get some new ass

I'm pretty sure the "til death do you part" section of your marriage vows is what defines what should be the end of a marriage.

I mean, we don't vow to love, honor and cherish "until I get sick of you."

The real problem (new window)

I'll just leave this here.

Gotta be the Sandra Tsing Loh article.



Yep.

biatch.

Playerslight: Ughh. I honestly tried to read that, but it was like eating five pounds of potatoes. The first paragraph or two were okay, but halfway through I felt nauseated and bloated and I couldn't continue.

Same here. She is desperately trying to romanticise why she can't romanticise her marriage - so she sees this as a problem with the human race rather than an inability to face her flaws.

Too sugary for me to swallow.

That's an awful lots of words just to say "I'm a slut."

What a cunning stunt.

Bitter much?

tetsoushima: I'll just leave this here.

I can't believe you almost made me look at something related to Sex in the City. Have you no common decency?

/All I ask for is a little SITC tag

Link (new window)

I was looking for pics on the author and got sidetracked by her wikipedia page. She was fired for using the word "fark" on a radio segment essay about knitting. Under what circumstances does that even occur?

I think that we, as a society, should evolve past (choose one: marriage, line dancing, billiards, Halo) because I'm not very good at it.

Dr.Knockboots: Umm, if they were together for 20years, and they were good to each other, fostered great relationships in and out of the family, raised kids.. etc..

1) 20 years of a marriage which is mostly spent building towards unhappiness instead of a lasting bond is more like a prison sentence.

2) They apparently weren't good to one another, which is why she started on a new piece of ass before divorcing the one she married.

3) Considering the equally-unhappy friends she has, she isn't doing well in the "great relationships" department, either.

4) The kids are still fairly young (pre-teen). They'll probably end up AWs like their mom, more's the pity.

Not much success coming out of that marriage that I can see.

She's blaming the world because she couldn't keep her cooch covered?

Classy.

(I got about four paragraphs in before I felt the incredible urge to trepan)

FTA: "Ian won't have sex with me," Rachel says flatly. "He has not touched my body in two years. He says it's because I've gained weight."

Ouch.

Her ex is a lucky man. Freedom from that self-righteous, cheating, skank must feel like getting out of maximum security prison.

Playerslight: tetsoushima: I'll just leave this here.

I can't believe you almost made me look at something related to Sex in the City. Have you no common decency?

/All I ask for is a little SITC tag

I think if you had followed the link, you would have found me justified.

paygun: That's an awful lots of words just to say "I'm a slut."

Articulate slut, I'll give her that much. I hope her kids don't grow up to just care about themselves too.

I hate reading articles about self absorbed people rationalizing their behavior.

At the end of life, how far the center of the universe will seem.

She's got about 10 years before most the people she knows are going to start dying of all kinds of shiat. So enjoy your dinner parties lady.

It's as though she drank a marriage for dummies book along with a psych 101 textbook and vomited the combined contents all over my monitor. I'd have cheated on her 19 years ago.

Christ, I'd let her go down on me if that's what it would take to shut her up. I can't say I disagree with her....I can't figure out what the hell she's getting at.

Here's a pic of Sandra Tsing Loh, as determined by the gooogles.



Make your own decisions about it, boyos.

PJ_the_Barbarian: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 50% statistic is misleading. Isn't it between 60-67% of first marriages that succeed, with multiple divorcees bringing the total divorce numbers the rest of the way up?

Yeah, something that works almost 2 out of 3 times must be completely obsolete.

Lady, you'll have a leg to stand on when more than half of first marriages fail. Not sooner.

Check the number on the few thousands marriages a year that mature (3 years) for immigration purposes only. I now live on the border again and know that it happens all the time. They can't track it. Damn canadians!

Shrew2u: unlikely: This is a baby boomer who loved Heinlein, isn't it?

Au, contraire - Heinlein would have told her to stop being a biatch and take care of her man and family instead of playing "poor me" all the time.

This.

/RIP Robert A.

Spike Lee's Favorite Farker: Link (new window)

I was looking for pics on the author and got sidetracked by her wikipedia page. She was fired for using the word "fark" on a radio segment essay about knitting. Under what circumstances does that even occur?

I'm stumped to that one unless it was a reflexive action, like Norm MacDonald coughing something up and saying "What the fark was that?!?" before he realized he was on live TV.

I didn't even get to the part where she blamed society. That's how bad of a writer she is.

Playerslight: Ughh. I honestly tried to read that, but it was like eating five pounds of potatoes. The first paragraph or two were okay, but halfway through I felt nauseated and bloated and I couldn't continue.

+1 internet for not typing "nauseous".

(-1 internet to me for typing "+1 internet")

TehNacho: What a stupid biatch.

She does have a degree in physics from Caltech, but on the other hand....

d-fens99: Make your own decisions about it, boyos.

Oh yeah, they're going to be lined up around the block to get a piece of that. I wonder if her friends will have the nerve to tell the blind dates "she's got a great personality."

Yeah, I thought Farkers would like this one.

Iron my shirt, biatch.

Spike Lee's Favorite Farker: TehNacho: What a stupid biatch.

She does have a degree in physics from Caltech, but on the other hand....

you're right. It's not her int that's the problem, it's wis.

Playerslight: Ughh. I honestly tried to read that, but it was like eating five pounds of potatoes. The first paragraph or two were okay, but halfway through I felt nauseated and bloated and I couldn't continue.

That's pretty good. You make that up?

tetsoushima: I think if you had followed the link, you would have found me justified.

Okay, but I'm trusting you on this one. All I saw was SITC.

*break*

I'm back and you've been vindicated. Although I kept waiting for it to end, and then realized that it never would. Just like a real hen fest.

tetsoushima: The real problem (new window)

I'll just leave this here.

Other than the annoying YTMND link, you're partly right. That show is probably responsible for some women feeling like they are a victim when they cheat on their husband/boyfriend.

Sarah Jessica Parker's character is a neurotic cheating skank, and some women relate to that.

FTFA:
my dearest childhood wish was not just that my parents would divorce, but also that my raging father would burst into flames

Daddy Issues.

That was a very well written piece of garbage.
/a good marriage is something exclusive to 10% of the population
//in b4 anecdotal experience

Hey Sandra Tsing Loh:

QUIT YOUR biatchIN' AND GET BACK TO THE KITCHEN!

She could have easily saved her marriage with this piece of advice.

Debeo Summa Credo: Playerslight: Ughh. I honestly tried to read that, but it was like eating five pounds of potatoes. The first paragraph or two were okay, but halfway through I felt nauseated and bloated and I couldn't continue.

That's pretty good. You make that up?

Roger Ebert made a similar analogy about the Indiana Jones series. In his review of Crystal Skull he compared each movie to a pound of sausage: you're excited about the first one, then progressively less so.

It's a pretty good one, borrowed or original.

Lots of "THIS" going on in this thread. I am pleasantly surprised that so many Farkers recognize a selfish, self-obsessed person when they run across her tortuous ramblings.

"Ian won't have sex with me," Rachel says flatly. "He has not touched my body in two years. He says it's because I've gained weight." Again, we stoutly protest, but she goes on. "And he thinks I'm a bad mother - he says I'm sloppy and inattentive."

This little coven of selfish biatches knows no bounds. This Ian guy makes me look like a kleptomaniac drunkard and she wants to leave him?

Maybe he's right, Rachel. Maybe your ass needs to get to the gym. He built you a goddamn kitchen. All he wants in return is some slim nookie.

d-fens99: Here's a pic of Sandra Tsing Loh, as determined by the gooogles.



Make your own decisions about it, boyos.

That dude is ugly.

UberDave: What a cunning stunt coont stain.

TiggaBob: Hey Sandra Tsing Loh:

QUIT YOUR biatchIN' AND GET BACK TO THE KITCHENBEDROOM!

She could have easily saved her marriage with this piece of advice.

FTFY. From what it sounds like, her husband was the better cook.

If she does happen to move on and find another guy I hope that guy can find this article. Not just to find out how crazy she is but the fact that she cheated on her husband of 20 years. Anyone who does that is the lowest of the low and really deserves to be alone.

Debeo Summa Credo: That's pretty good. You make that up?

Yup. Initially I had "five pounds of bacon", but then I realized it was a terrible comparison as most farkers, myself included, can't imagine an excessive volume of bacon consumption.

tricycleracer: This Ian guy makes me look like a kleptomaniac drunkard

You say that like you're not ;-P

d-fens99: Here's a pic of Sandra Tsing Loh, as determined by the gooogles.



Make your own decisions about it, boyos.

Here's the bad news for the selfish biatch. Her next "relationship" is going to be with a 55 year old man. Meanwhile, her husband is going to be banging college cheerleaders that like his corvette and his gold card.

Do we still need marriage, Sandra? No, WE don't. YOU do.

PJ_the_Barbarian: It's not her int that's the problem, it's wis.

Her cha ain't that great either.

/or was it chr?

robmilmel: Hope you're good with a vibrator, lady, cause that's the only lasting relationship I see you having in your future.

approves:

/hot like that biatch aint

d-fens99: Make your own decisions about it, boyos.

That's just Wong.