The Concept of "Man Caves"

[Anonymous 0]

If somebody needs a mancave, okay his choice. But the rest of the house should also be a  place to stay whenever one wants to. A cave to go there just because not seeing somebody who also lives in the house is not acceptable for me. I wouldn’t feel good in the cave at all, knowing someone is outhere maybe just waiting to blame me for somthing.

My whole Appartement looks like one big creative suite, and I am glad that I don’t need to justify.

Carpe Diem!

[BlazzoParticipant 8]

Lucas Buck wrote:

batcave wrote:

Well…sometimes a man has to make due with what he has… So the mancave is springboarding my career….my office. With a child headed to college…. why buy a new house? Mancave..for fun… and many MGTOWS will shoot their mouth off about taking the whole house… yet I love not having to see the wife. There are married MGTOW evolving their lives. Then there’s the batcave. A lab, shop or office.. where you crank work out…making a future life possible.

If you only get one room out of the house for yourself, and you love not seeing your wife, what the f~~~ are you still married for… I guess I don’t get it and never will. Because it’s ‘easier’? F~~~ that. I agree with Doc Fenderson and others: the whole concept of a ‘man cave’ is complete bulls~~~ and demeans men.

 

Lets say you’re married and your in your late 50’s.  You’ve been married for 25+ years worked hard, been paid well and have a large amount of money in your 401K plan.  Your wife either hasnt worked for most of that time or if she has has not made significant money and the money she did make she spent along the way.

The house you own is 3-4 years away from being paid off, you have 750K in your 401k…  and you ask a silly question like why stay?

Well lets see… First off you will have to buy out her equity if YOU plan to keep the house.  She may likely tell you she doesn’t want it for a number of reasons  #1  she has to give up her portion of equity to stay and buy you out and that doesn’t make sense financially. #2  since you’ve been married for 25+ years you are looking at Alimony for a minimum of 12-15 years. #3 that 750K in your 104k?  Well, half of it will go to her.

 

All in all divorcing her will cost you nearly a half million. Oh, and that is right before retirement is right around the corner.  But since you divorced her and you lost half your retirement assets you cant afford to retire likely for good… so in that case you’d be brain dead to divorce if you aren’t fighting all the time

[Lucas BuckParticipant 51]

Depends how much you value freedom I guess.  What price do you put on it?

How does the man in that position know his wife isn’t going to turn round and divorce him, and he loses just the same?

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