Even though she’s just one individual, she’s a good barometer for what’s happening out here.  They all come out of the same, confused, feminist mold, and I hate to say that about my “little girl” (now 34), but, hey, it’s just the truth.

She moved in with him, and the first week he told her that she’d have to contribute to the rent.  She calls me [as if I’m her “girlfriend”], telling me, “He KNOWS that I had NO intention of paying anything!  He knows that.  I have to get myself together,” yada, yada, yada.  First of all, the dude works his ass off, FOR REAL.  Secondly, I could easily guess that he was trying to HELP her [naively, perhaps] get some FIRE up under her ass so that she could get out and get a gig.  I’m sure he would have given her time.

Instead, she left him after the first week.  In her mind, it was “not reasonable” for her to pay rent.  Yeah…right.

Anyway, less than 50%??  I find that impossible to believe.

Give him a few more years.

Apart from the above, there are many many who will not leave bad marriages due to financial and other reason – they just hang in there. To be fair, there are possibly women in bad marriages hanging in there for the kids etc.

Most married men I know off, have stated to me that they would never get married again if given the chance. Further, many, if most have stated that they wished they had never got married and had kids in the first place. I know a few guys that are happy with their wives. They are few and far between and they say their wife’s are a decent/good person.

From other statistics I’ve found. Approximately 25% of marriages are sexless – less than 12 sexual encounters a year.

The above statistics DO NOT take into account de-facto relationships.

In reality, looking at the stats. The chances of a long term committed relationship lasting a very long time has the odds of flipping a coin (heads or tails). And it takes 2 people to make it work…if one goes AWOL it’s all over!

Here is another http://www.divorcestatistics.org/

Or, you can get your info from Jizzabell and believe your blue pill friend http://jezebel.com/that-50-percent-divorce-statistic-hasnt-been-true-for-a-1665833364

70% of these are initiated by women, bu when have facts mattered to the blue pill world anyway? Don’t waste your time.

From the first one link:

Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50

Didn’t know the above.

2nd marriages are about a 65% chance of Divorce and 3rd marriages are 75%.

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival or an investment advisor stating that you could lose 50% of your net wealth on this single investment (diversified portfolio anyone!)

MADNESS I tell you!

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival

This is only half what the surgeon says.  He says you have a 50% chance of survival, and a 50% chance of ending up exactly the same with the operation as you would without.  Why take the risk when you really won’t gain anything anyhow?

Nice Capt

From the first one link:

Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50

Didn’t know the above.

2nd marriages are about a 65% chance of Divorce and 3rd marriages are 75%.

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival or an investment advisor stating that you could lose 50% of your net wealth on this single investment (diversified portfolio anyone!)

MADNESS I tell you!

Quite.

Imagine if you wrote marriage up like a contract and handed it to a businessman. He’d think you were crazy.

The_reality_factor wrote:

Imagine a Surgeon saying before an operation, that you only have a 50% chance of survival

This is only half what the surgeon says. He says you have a 50% chance of survival, and a 50% chance of ending up exactly the same with the operation as you would without. Why take the risk when you really won’t gain anything anyhow?