Stupid hypothetical question I've asked some single friends

[texasdad2012]

If you could get married again and be guaranteed 10 years of total and complete happiness (however you imagine it), but knowing that it would again end in a bitter and nasty divorce, would you go through with the marriage? What about for 20 years?

[Fatheroffour]

As long as I don't have to have kids again the divorce couldn't be too bitter and nasty.

I'm game.

[a dad]

Let's see, 10yrs x 365days x 2bj/day = 7,300bjs

I'm in.

But that's a loaded question.

[BartSimpson]

It ends with a bitter and nasty divorce, but much more occurs in the middle regardless if you are married. Particulary if she has long hair, stays fit, has sex anytime and can shut up - that's how I imagine it.

You premise is wrong - achieving 10 years of total and complete happiness is evidence of a relationship that should not fail, marriage is a token element rather than a requirement. Who wrecks a good thing?

Modern Women. Don't get married.

[texasdad2012]

a dad: I like your math! Where do I find that woman?

Now if you had substituted over-priced Starbucks coffees/day, I could relate more.

[a dad]

The only place you can find her, in that hypothetical world your imagining.

BS ain't no bs.

[Transcended]

Easy one. No and No.

But the question does make me wonder how a guy can get married now a days and actually think he will grow old with his wife and be strolling along some beach holding hands with her after 40 years of marriage.

With today's modern woman, Id say the chances of that are slim and none.

[BubbaGumpShrimp]

No. Given the guaranteed outcome...why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?

[texasdad2012]

Bubba Gump Shrimp: I know what you mean about the cow and milk. But (changing the analogy a little) isn't the feeling of owning a dog different than that of just borrowing one for a while?

And I think Transcended has a valid point about today's woman. I'm not sure there are many that are willing to stick through "thick & thin" anymore, and I now think their loyalties are more temporal and wavering than a man's.

[BubbaGumpShrimp]

Bubba Gump Shrimp: I know what you mean about the cow and milk. But (changing the analogy a little) isn't the feeling of owning a dog different than that of just borrowing one for a while?

And I think Transcended has a valid point about today's woman. I'm not sure there are many that are willing to stick through "thick & thin" anymore, and I now think their loyalties are more temporal and wavering than a man's.

The way that I'll put it to you...that "owning" you're talking about goes both ways. I was living with NJ prior to getting married. The ONLY thing that changed in our dynamic once I put a ring on her finger is that she got lazy and the "nice" went away. Hell...If I hadn't married her, she likely would have kept behaving properly because she knew that I didn't have to put up with her. Seriously...she viewed marriage as a form of imprisonment. She honestly thought that I didn't have the right to leave her once we got married. In a way, it's good that I did marry her. If I hadn't, I'd likely still be with her as she wouldn't have dialed up the psycho enough to run me off yet.

Unless I meet a chick that's just awesome and so ******* hot that I'd "eat the corn out of he $h1t" (a quote from 'Hobo with a shotgun'), I don't think I'd get married again.