Nothing. Or, more precisely, less than nothing. She became unhappier. The husband bent over backwards to fulfill his wife’s every demand, and the result is tragicomically predictable: gina tingles extinguished. For the past year or so, my husband has ceased to be able to turn me on, to the point where I am almost repulsed […]
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Courtesy of commenter mendozatorres, a quote from Mary Haweis, authoress , who sounds spookily prescient about our current state of marriage as she reminds her readers that marriage sans concessions is a boon for women and a raw deal for men. Alas, when people complain of men not marrying (even they who are able), they […]
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Census Bureau data show that 70% of men aged 20-34 are unmarried . The trend is unmistakable, and predates the current recessionary unpleasantness: More men are dropping out of the marriage market, and this gradually escalating abandonment has been going on since the 1960s. CH has discussed ad infinitum the various causes for the marriage […]
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Fred Reed, honorary poolside guest, on marriage and kids : Nobody goes into marriage expecting divorce, but it comes very frequently, and she really does get the house and the children. In divorces, men lose. […] The sensible conclusion is that you are better off single, building a career or whatever you want in life, […]
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In the “ Picking up married women ” post, I commented that an indeterminate number of happily married women will go out of their way to avoid the temptation to infidelity, and will extend this courtesy to their boyfriends and husbands. Some happily married women (read: married women still sexually aroused by their husbands) avoid […]
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This post is presented “as is”, with neither editorial condemnation nor endorsement. Read at your own risk. There are scores of CH posts in the archives dealing with game for married men: How to (re)seduce your wife , and how to seduce applicants for mistresshood . But there aren’t many posts about picking up married […]
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Commenter Otsuka Duojinshi highlights another great H. L. Mencken quote , this time on the topic of the romantic isolation of the wives wedded to boring beta male providers. HLM identified a wife’s contempt for the beta/omega precisely: A woman, if she hates her husband (and many of them do), can make life so sour […]
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A new study finds that husbands’ happiness depends on their wives’ happiness. The authors did not find a significant association between spouse’s marital appraisals and own well-being. However, the association between husband’s marital quality and life satisfaction is buoyed when his wife also reports a happy marriage, yet flattened when his wife reports low marital […]
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Well-meaning tradcons with white knight complexes like Charles Murray and Ross Douthat wonder why more men aren’t MANNING UP and getting married. They say it’s because too many men are jobless. Maybe. But there’s another, less Hivemind-hospitable explanation for the marriage dearth: Too many women are fat. Groom looks like he just found out he’s […]
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In big and small ways, social science studies have a habit of confirming many CH precepts. The latest finds that expensive diamond engagement rings and expensive wedding ceremonies are inversely associated with marriage duration. This study was done by professors from Emory University. They found that U.S. adults who spent large amounts of money on […]
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