Tommy Moo
PascalsGhost: In the entire history of missing the point, few humans have managed to miss the point as much as you.

This is ridiculous. The point is that marriage is obsolete. I addressed it perfectly. It is. I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

Go read comic books. You fail at this.


I looked at your profile to flame you...but you are prolly having sex with lots of women at the gym now, so nevermind.

I only made it halfway down the first page of that self-indulgent tripe.

Wow, if she's as yappy in person as she is in that article, I say bully for her husband.

Better to lose that yenta than settle for a bullet in the head.

PJ_the_Barbarian: Tommy Moo: I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

if you're a walking, talking penis then I'll accept the idea that getting laid is the entirety of life's experiences.

When you're a sex addict like me, it's how you judge your self-worth.

/Don't bother checking my profile, Fark. I'm a dude.

Is the headline actually what she was saying? I tried to read the article but it was too long and boring.

I mean, there is a point to the "marriage is obsolete" argument, people are living long enough to get tired of each other's shiat these days, and back in the "good old days" of rare divorces and lifelong marriages mistresses and affairs tended to be common. Even so, cheating is wrong, if you cannot own up to your boredom BEFORE sleeping around, you are a jackass.

Didn't they ever consider swinging? If she's just whining for some strange wood, I mean, there are all kinds of places that can accommodate.

Part of the problem is that women (and the law) forget Marriage is a contract. It pretty much says I get to take care of you and you in turn get to fark me when I wish.

Except fat nasty feminists managed to drop the second part. So the guy now gets the privilege to marry a female who gets all the money regardless and doesn't have to reciprocate in manner or from.

The contract can also be modified at any time by any court at their whim.

Oh yay, reverse Mormonism.

wh0mprat: Empowered Man Murders Controlling Wife In Lifetime For Men Original Movie (new window)

Awesome.

Ummon: At 41 my wife decided "she didn't want to be married anymore". She spent the next year acting like a 5 year old. Finally I said to hell with it and moved out.
Women do it to themselves and they wonder why they can't meet a good man

I currently, at this time, feel your pain.

I'm not married and never plan to be. If you (the woman in the article) feel that marriage is outdated, get a divorce and then a new boy-toy. Doing it the other way round is as assholish as it gets. It's the betrayal and lying and deceit that's the issue, not the sex.

If you don't want to be with someone, leave. Don't betray them and leave them with a knife in their back, just go.

rewind2846: Why is there such an obvious double standard when it comes to farking outside of marriage?

If a woman gets caught messing around with Juan The Swarthy PoolboyTM they can fall back on excuses like, "He was never home", "I was lonely", "My husband drove me into the arms of another man"... while fervent watchers of Oprah's book club, SITC, and Lifetime television nod their heads approvingly in sympathy.

If a man gets caught with the 19 year old babysitter or office temp because his wife hadn't given him any since Clinton was in office, he is automatically judged to be nothing but a disgusting worm for whom burning at the stake, castration with a chainsaw, and impalement on a rusty fence post would not be enough punishment. So say we all.

So now we have this article, in which the author seeks to elicit some measure of sympathy for her her humping around by blaming everyone and everything but herself, as if she just accidently tripped and fell on the dick. What a selfish, self-absorbed coont. Hope her laptop keeps her warm, because when she is old and prune-like there won't be anything else that temperature near her crotch ever again.

Good for the goose and all that, I says...

your post reminded me of this:

"Yeah Yeah, i know - you tripped, slipped on the carpet and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife".

/still one of my favorite movies.

PJ_the_Barbarian:
When you're as self-centered as pop culture encourages you to be, love is hard work because it's about service. If you're conditioned to never put someone else's well-being above your own, it's really hard work to fake it.

Well said. As someone who's getting married in T-minus 21 days, I appreciate that.

basehitter10: Ummon: At 41 my wife decided "she didn't want to be married anymore". She spent the next year acting like a 5 year old. Finally I said to hell with it and moved out.
Women do it to themselves and they wonder why they can't meet a good man

I currently, at this time, feel your pain.

It gets alot easier once you find out you can get more tail than you ever did in in your 20's

What a bunch of douche baggy biatches.............. They should all STFU and go make me a sammich

basehitter10: Ummon: At 41 my wife decided "she didn't want to be married anymore". She spent the next year acting like a 5 year old. Finally I said to hell with it and moved out.
Women do it to themselves and they wonder why they can't meet a good man

I currently, at this time, feel your pain.

So do whatever you want. What's sho going to do, divorce you?

oh god wtf my head hurt after no more than 4 sentences of blather

i tried to stay open minded

really

Abracapocalypse: I'm not married and never plan to be. If you (the woman in the article) feel that marriage is outdated, get a divorce and then a new boy-toy. Doing it the other way round is as assholish as it gets. It's the betrayal and lying and deceit that's the issue, not the sex.

If you don't want to be with someone, leave. Don't betray them and leave them with a knife in their back, just go.

Well said.

Ummon: basehitter10: Ummon: At 41 my wife decided "she didn't want to be married anymore". She spent the next year acting like a 5 year old. Finally I said to hell with it and moved out.
Women do it to themselves and they wonder why they can't meet a good man

I currently, at this time, feel your pain.

It gets alot easier once you find out you can get more tail than you ever did in in your 20's

+1

You'll have a blast -- And yes, you will get the cute 20-year-olds. I will say, they get tiresome after some time. But, until that time, enjoy the heck out of it! You'll have an awsome string of young hotties, grow bored of their empty minds and find a nice older woman and get the best of both worlds -- sex and a mind!

/worked for me!

She sounds like she can't understand normal thinking.

Okay, Farkers, who here goes to bed every night with a glass of Merlot? I always thought that was just something they did in the movies.

/I imagine that when she goes to bed she wears one of those silk robes with the feathery collars and cuffs and has her hair wrapped up like Norma Desmond's.

But as we all know, the Sexually Open Marriage fizzled with the lava lamp, because it is just downright icky for most people.

We know no such thing. It's the way most modern couples I know (as opposed to, say, my grandparents, who have pride in their discipline to fall back on) deal with marriage after the kids reach a certain age.

I know that's anecdotal, but the couples I know that don't deal with it in that fashion are either dramatically older than me (pre-boom), divorced, or my parents. While I can't claim that a majority of people do it from my sample, I can damn well assert it hasn't 'fizzled'. It would probably even fix this woman's problem.

Though, that said... if you and your spouse have agreed to be sexually monogamous and taken an oath to be such, and you break it, it's your own damn fault. No amount of rationalization as to why the oath is 'outdated' absolves you of breaking it, you get as little pity from us as the gay folk in the military who go on national TV about it after being given an order (which they've sworn to follow) not to, then act all shocked and offended when they're discharged. No, wait, you get even less sympathy, because this is a bad order to which you subjected yourself with full intent instead of a bad order imposed by society/the government for which we as citizens are partially responsible.

Fail.

//If you think of marriage-- or, hell, dating for that matter-- as complete ownership of the other person or any aspect of their behavior, I think you've got a problem to start with. Women were granted suffrage a while ago, it's intended to be more of a partnership than a mutual subjugation.

//Not married myself, though not necessarily through lack of trying.

Mnemia: zabadu: While I agree that maybe the numbers are off, I still would not take eharmony's word for it. Lousy source.

So find a better one. There are plenty of legitimate research articles showing exactly the same thing.

I'm not the one posting facts. If you're posting facts, post better ones than eharmony.

theoriginalslash: She "contributes" to NPR, and listening to her talk is even more annoying than reading her writing. So don't read it, here's the gist:

Neurotic, self-absorbed people often do reprehensible things like cheat on their spouses, then bore the fark out of everyone else explaining why they did it when everyone knows why people cheat: because they feel like it.

There, just saved some people a couple minutes.

BTW, I love all the "her husband will be banging cheerleaders" comments. Right. Unless he's Donald Trump rich, he'll be banging 30-somethings (maybe), not 20-somethings.


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In his forties, musician, we can assume not ugly? He'll be banging hotties.

mekki: Okay, Farkers, who here goes to bed every night with a glass of Merlot? I always thought that was just something they did in the movies.

/I imagine that when she goes to bed she wears one of those silk robes with the feathery collars and cuffs and has her hair wrapped up like Norma Desmond's.

Yeah, she's one uppity biatch. She should go to bed with a jug of MD 20/20 like Mrs. Right. In a clean brown bag to denote class.

That video is revealing in that she has crazy eyes and is obviously trying to justify her horrible actions by throwing the entire institution under the bus.

Also, that redheaded psychiatrist is quite cute. Couple that with the Freckles from the SC Pageant thread and my day is complete.

msannomalley: Just read the article. The author and her friends are a bunch of pretentious and self absorbed douchebaggettes. No wonder why her marriage failed.

I can now die happy after douchebaggettes.

Women will never achieve true equality until they stop blaming men for every stupid thing they do and they step up and take responsibility for their all of their actions. Women will never achieve true equality until they stop playing the victims and viewing anyone who possesses the Y chromosome and a penis as the enemy. Women will never achieve true equality until we stop criticizing each others choices and stop tearing each other down. Women will never achieve true equality until they drop the "man-hating" bullshiat.

The feminist movement, or the second wave, which the Boomers are responsible for, has done more harm than good to women's equality. Men are supposed to be evil oppressive uncouth bastards, but you're not a real woman unless you act like a man. And if you do traditionally female things, then you're being oppressed by those evil oppressive uncouth bastard men. WTF is that supposed to mean? If I want to stay home and take care of my kids or take up knitting or dress in a feminine way, it's because it's my choice to do so, and not because those evil bastard-men are forcing me to do it. I thought that being able to choose what I wanted to do with my life was the whole point of feminism.

A few hours later, and this woman and her self-absorption still pisses me off. My husband and I have been married for seven years and we have gone through some pretty awful shiat during that time and yet, we have survived and our marriage is stronger than ever and we are closer than ever. This self-absorbed twat throws in the towel and cheats after 20 years for stupid and selfish reasons. She deserves to die shriveled up and alone.

/end of rant
//I feel better now.
///wanted to call her a twat in one of my earlier posts.
////but douchebagette is a cool word, too.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...all i want to know was there any girl on girl action in this article?

/only read the first page then fell asleep

Ku_No_Ichi: 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.

This.

I thought it was just me and maybe,just maybe I was to stoopid to comprehend her rambelings.

/thank god.

5sharpie_69: Ummon: basehitter10: Ummon: At 41 my wife decided "she didn't want to be married anymore". She spent the next year acting like a 5 year old. Finally I said to hell with it and moved out.
Women do it to themselves and they wonder why they can't meet a good man

I currently, at this time, feel your pain.

It gets alot easier once you find out you can get more tail than you ever did in in your 20's

+1

You'll have a blast -- And yes, you will get the cute 20-year-olds. I will say, they get tiresome after some time. But, until that time, enjoy the heck out of it! You'll have an awsome string of young hotties, grow bored of their empty minds and find a nice older woman and get the best of both worlds -- sex and a mind!

/worked for me!

I was a slut until I hit 30 and got together with the woman I've been with, and faithful to, for the last 8 years.

Zero regrets. Play hard when you're young, choose wisely when you're older, and you will never end up stupid, hated and alone like TFA's author.

mekki: Okay, Farkers, who here goes to bed every night with a glass of Merlot? I always thought that was just something they did in the movies.

/I imagine that when she goes to bed she wears one of those silk robes with the feathery collars and cuffs and has her hair wrapped up like Norma Desmond's.

I tend to go to bed with a fifth of cheap gin and an inner emptiness that no amount of alcohol can fill.

I'm the ghost of this biatch's future.

Tommy Moo: PascalsGhost: In the entire history of missing the point, few humans have managed to miss the point as much as you.

This is ridiculous. The point is that marriage is obsolete. I addressed it perfectly. It is. I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

Go read comic books. You fail at this.

Flipdick, I'm 36 and live and support your lifestyle. That doesn't change the fact that you responded to his statement that you remember people and not ass on your deathbed with "Durr I no need marriage I slay the pussy! DURR!".

He wasn't suggesting everybody get married. He was saying putting a piece ass above the people in your life is pretty shallow and shortsighted. Goddamn, if you don't get that, you are one shallow mutherfarker.

Pmoon: msannomalley: Just read the article. The author and her friends are a bunch of pretentious and self absorbed douchebaggettes. No wonder why her marriage failed.

I can now die happy after douchebaggettes.

Would the tall, excessively thin ones be douchbaguettes?

They had to bury my ex wife in two different caskets.

It turns out it really was physically impossible for her to keep her legs together.

I tried, I really did. Still couldn't get past the 1st page.

My husband is a good man, though he did travel 20 weeks a year for work.

"Waaah my husband has a career!" I bet if he worked at Burger King to be home all the time, the response would be "Waaaaah we don't have enough money!"

I don't generally even enjoy men; I had an entirely manageable life and planned to go to my grave taking with me, as I do most nights to my bed, a glass of merlot and a good book.

"I don't show any sexual interest in my husband, then I wonder why he doesn't find me attractive or want to spend any time with me."

/done

robmilmel: . I can pick up our girls from school every day; I can feed them dinner and kiss their noses and tell them stories; I can take them to their doctor and dentist appointments; I can earn my half - sometimes more - of the money; I can pay the bills; I can refinance the house at the best possible interest rate; I can drive my husband to the airport; in his absence, I can sort his mail; I can be home to let the plumber in on Thursday between nine and three, and I can wait for the cable guy; I can make dinner conversation with any family member; I can ask friendly questions about anybody's day; I can administer hugs as needed to children, adults, dogs, cats; I can empty the litter box; I can stir wet food into dry

There is nothing on this list he cannot outsource for a whole lot less headache.

BTW, does it seem to anyone else that men rationalize to themselves why they are going to cheat, but that women want to rationalize it to the whole world? It's a generalization, but I wonder if it holds some water.

busy chillin': Tommy Moo
PascalsGhost: In the entire history of missing the point, few humans have managed to miss the point as much as you.

This is ridiculous. The point is that marriage is obsolete. I addressed it perfectly. It is. I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

Go read comic books. You fail at this.


I looked at your profile to flame you...but you are prolly having sex with lots of women at the gym now, so nevermind.

Goddamn, you ain't kidding. DOUCHE

Once agaisn, the comments demonstrate that while 40-60% of the world cheats, 0% of Farkers do

nuclear_asshat: BTW, does it seem to anyone else that men rationalize to themselves why they are going to cheat, but that women want to rationalize it to the whole world? It's a generalization, but I wonder if it holds some water.

Most men tend to handle all of their problems internally, infidelity included I presume.

Yada...yada...farking yada

Mnemia
So find a better one. There are plenty of legitimate research articles showing exactly the same thing.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/01news/firstmarr.htm

New data on marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States show that 43 percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce within 15 years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The report, "First Marriage Dissolution, Divorce, and Remarriage: United States," also shows that one in three first marriages end within 10 years and one in five end within 5 years. The findings are based on data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a study of 10,847 women 15-44 years of age.

So, basically....

After 5 years - 1/5 marriages have ended in divorce.
After 10 years - 1/3 marriages have ended in divorce.
After 15 years - ~1/2 marriages have ended in divorce.

Yes, 43% is less than 50% - but we're only looking at the first 15 years. People do get divorced after that.

PascalsGhost: busy chillin': Tommy Moo
PascalsGhost: In the entire history of missing the point, few humans have managed to miss the point as much as you.

This is ridiculous. The point is that marriage is obsolete. I addressed it perfectly. It is. I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

Go read comic books. You fail at this.


I looked at your profile to flame you...but you are prolly having sex with lots of women at the gym now, so nevermind.

Goddamn, you ain't kidding. DOUCHE

or if not now then in 26 minutes. Amirite?

Normally, I like words. I really do.

This article has far more than I care to endure.

PascalsGhost: busy chillin': Tommy Moo
PascalsGhost: In the entire history of missing the point, few humans have managed to miss the point as much as you.

This is ridiculous. The point is that marriage is obsolete. I addressed it perfectly. It is. I don't need to marry someone to get laid, ergo, it's farking obsolete.

Go read comic books. You fail at this.


I looked at your profile to flame you...but you are prolly having sex with lots of women at the gym now, so nevermind.

Goddamn, you ain't kidding. DOUCHE

I was going to make the same point you did...then I looked at his profile. A douche of epic proportions.

mekki: Okay, Farkers, who here goes to bed every night with a glass of Merlot? I always thought that was just something they did in the movies.

/I imagine that when she goes to bed she wears one of those silk robes with the feathery collars and cuffs and has her hair wrapped up like Norma Desmond's.

I don't know. She seems to detest the notion of silky lingerie, so a silky robe may be equally unappealing. And she doesn't want to give her husband the illusion that she's dressing sexy for him. My guess is she goes to bed wearing sweats and an oversized t-shirt. Probably with merlot stains on it.

Fark_Guy_Rob: Mnemia
So find a better one. There are plenty of legitimate research articles showing exactly the same thing.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/01news/firstmarr.htm

New data on marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States show that 43 percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce within 15 years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The report, "First Marriage Dissolution, Divorce, and Remarriage: United States," also shows that one in three first marriages end within 10 years and one in five end within 5 years. The findings are based on data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, a study of 10,847 women 15-44 years of age.

So, basically....

After 5 years - 1/5 marriages have ended in divorce.
After 10 years - 1/3 marriages have ended in divorce.
After 15 years - ~1/2 marriages have ended in divorce.

Yes, 43% is less than 50% - but we're only looking at the first 15 years. People do get divorced after that.

Not very many, though - if you've tolerated someone that long chances are you can keep it up.

Fark_Guy_Rob: Yes, 43% is less than 50% - but we're only looking at the first 15 years. People do get divorced after that.

Or cremated...

Scoop84: Once agaisn, the comments demonstrate that while 40-60% of the world cheats, 0% of Farkers do

Depends on the thread... in this sort of thread, we're all vigorous supporters of monogamy and/or the sanctity of marriage.

In another thread, we may all be super-sexed swingers that have no fewer than 17 simultaneous sex partners.

In this post-ideological age, we don't have firm, fixed beliefs and ideas anymore. What we support can change from day to day with no difficulty or apparent contradiction.

Tommy Moo: I don't need to get married. I love every minute of my life. I have lots of sex with multiple partners. Outside of my job, no one in the world can tell me where to be or what to do. I spend my weekends relaxing and partying instead of cleaning up poop and falling asleep at 9:30.

I hope you got to the gym - you only had 26 minutes, after all.

Scoop84: Once agaisn, the comments demonstrate that while 40-60% of the world cheats, 0% of Farkers do

There are probably cheaters reading this thread. They're silently turning red and closing the browser window, then making sure they cleared the other set of email accounts out of their browser history.

Remember that Fark's commenters are self-selecting. People without opinions are invisible. This is why every Fark thread seems to be full of experts on everything.