Yet on virtually every single indicator the married are far better off than the non-married and children from married parents are far better off than children from non-married parents.
I don't necessarily promote #GMB, but this pictogram story should be required viewing for those contemplating matrimony.
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Yet on virtually every single indicator the married are far better off than the non-married and children from married parents are far better off than children from non-married parents.
I’m aware in this scenario the only way to completely 0 risk is to not marry. I and many other men aren’t interested in any risk. Some don’t want the headache. Just differences in what people prioritize no one is right or wrong, to each their own
I see your 35-40% and raise you 50%
Divorce Rate by State 2024
worldpopulationreview.com
more info:
Divorce Rate in America: 35 Stunning Stats for 2023
The current divorce rate in the US is 2.3 per 1,000 people. Take a look at the fascinating facts, stats, and figures related to the divorce rate in America.legaljobs.io
Its around 50% no matter how you slice it.
Breh, your links were shyt. The first one doesn't source it's "50%" claim at all, the actual sourced statistics there show completely different numbers. And the 2nd link is just some random blogger who vaguely wrote "40-50%" and said it was constantly declining.
Why should shytty vague and poorly sourced links like that overrule a clear, well-sourced article showing that the divorce rate peaked at 41% and has been dropping since then?
OP you missed the ending clip on the updated video....here it is. 
If she is the type to say she is being abused when told she is in the wrong you took a massive L. You married a child and will have to take care of that child until she dies."He abuses me"
LeaveMyHairLineAlone
Superstar
GMB is soo backwards 
If you went back in time and told your parents GMB! You wouldn't exist today.
Act like you were made out of clay brehs
If you went back in time and told your parents GMB! You wouldn't exist today.
Act like you were made out of clay brehs
You keep beating this "all that matters is %" bullshyt without even being able to use the right percentages. As I already pointed out, it's 35-40% and dropping, not 50%. Your entire percentage is a fukking myth.
Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think (Published 2005)
How many American marriages end in divorce? One in two, if you believe the statistic endlessly repeated in news media reports, academic papers and campaign speeches. The figure is based on a simple -- and flawed -- calculation: the annual marriage rate per 1,000 people compared with the...
The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (Published 2014)
The high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s is starting to look like a historical anomaly, not a trend.
You started off with a false statistic that doesn't accurately reflect the # of marriages that end in divorce. Then you proceed to a hypothetical scenario that only affects a portion of those divorces.
There are two potential people who can cause a divorce. If YOU don't want to get divorced, you immediately lower the chances of a divorce happening. And if you avoid the sort of partners who are likely to divorce, you lower the chances even more. It's the same way that safe drivers have far lower likelihoods of getting into a car accident than reckless drivers. You can't control everything but you have a substantial greater degree of control than this random chance victimhood narrative that is constantly played here.
I mean think about it. EVERY time that marriage is talked about in TLR, men portray themselves as helpless victims who are automatically subject to a made-up exaggerated divorce rate as if they had zero control over outcomes. It's embarrassing and counterproductive.
Deep_Black_Conscious
Superstar
Marriage should be saved for people who are actual soul mates. I'm talking spiritual union they were destined to be together ish with each person
being a simp to the other for balance.
People pushing marriage when divorce and the kids seeing the toxicity of the marriage before divorce can be damaging to the kids
The point is to have love and good standards in the home, otherwise what will the child learn?
The amount of souless dead zombies getting married and having kids w/ stone cold hearts is unbelievable.
They are miserable and tend to put all of their misery on their poor children who grow up damaged, bitter,
and angry at the world, only to continue the cycle by having kids and doing the same thing to them
marriage or no marriage.
People pushing marriage this and marriage that instead of letting people decide what makes THEM HAPPY
A lot of people get married and have kids because their family harrasses them and try to turn them into an outsider
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"Not marry" isn't zero risk though. Unmarried folk are more likely to get cheated on than married folk are. Unmarried folk are more likely to have their partner leave them. They're far more likely to catch STDs, if they have a kid they're still on the hook for caring for that kid married or not and the average projected outcomes for that kid are far worse than they would be married. Sounds like a lot of risk to me.
The only way to have "zero risk" is to never get into a relationship or have sex at all. And while many TLR posters act like that's about the level of interaction with women they desire, I doubt it's what they really want.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
All Star
That menacing soundtrack to the story... 
Peachstate
Lady
Damn lol
Peachstate
Lady
It was hella riveting
You keep beating this "all that matters is %" bullshyt without even being able to use the right percentages. As I already pointed out, it's 35-40% and dropping, not 50%. Your entire percentage is a fukking myth.
Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think (Published 2005)
How many American marriages end in divorce? One in two, if you believe the statistic endlessly repeated in news media reports, academic papers and campaign speeches. The figure is based on a simple -- and flawed -- calculation: the annual marriage rate per 1,000 people compared with the...www.nytimes.com
The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (Published 2014)
The high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s is starting to look like a historical anomaly, not a trend.
You started off with a false statistic that doesn't accurately reflect the # of marriages that end in divorce. Then you proceed to a hypothetical scenario that only affects a portion of those divorces.
There are two potential people who can cause a divorce. If YOU don't want to get divorced, you immediately lower the chances of a divorce happening. And if you avoid the sort of partners who are likely to divorce, you lower the chances even more. It's the same way that safe drivers have far lower likelihoods of getting into a car accident than reckless drivers. You can't control everything but you have a substantial greater degree of control than this random chance victimhood narrative that is constantly played here.
I mean think about it. EVERY time that marriage is talked about in TLR, men portray themselves as helpless victims who are automatically subject to a made-up exaggerated divorce rate as if they had zero control over outcomes. It's embarrassing and counterproductive.
I hear what you're saying, but someone can tell you I love you a hundred times. And then suddenly they don't.
You will never fully know someone you marry even after 30yrs, and you know them even LESS BEFORE you marry them. There's a reason ppl can date for 8 yrs, get married and then divorced by year 9.
Also, you can be blindsided by a divorce. As a man, yeah there may be warning signs, but if you're not mistreating someone or behaving differently, and their feelings just change, as women can be prone to doing, then ur screwed. Plenty dudes have said the words, "I never would've thought she would do this...."
You might be an edgy/bad boy bc you're single and don't think anyone loves you. Then You meet a chick who cares and now you become softer, less dangerous, but she got with you bc you were edgy, the bad boy. Now she's "bored" bc you calmed down and not the person she met.
I'm not anti-marriage, I'm just skeptical of what it has become in culture. Like, okay let's get "married" and commit to each other be faithful ....but why cant we do it off-paper? Why can you say you're not in love anymore, and now i gotta pay you? Now I gotta give half my check to you off the top for spousal and child support?
Why does it have to be that crucial even if I never did anything wrong to you?
feelosofer
#ninergang
Some of you guys need therapy. I'm not saying marriages are perfect by any means but I would have ulcers carrying that much negative energy.
