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Hi All,<br />
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Something I have been thinking about internally for a while is the idea of marriage and whether or not it is worth it in today's society (I am speaking from a 1st world western country).<br />
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I do think that my upbringing has had effected my viewpoints on the matter (coming from a family who's parents divorced when I was young and it being a fairly bitter process for both parents).<br />
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Ultimately, from looking into the statistics with basically 1 in 2 marriages ending in divorce along with most people identifying as agnostic or atheist is there any need for the idealism of marriage anymore? The only reason I can see it being more prevalent is if you want children or for legal and tax reasons etc.<br />
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If a marriage is to go south it can have crippling effects on an individual mentally and financially. I was wondering what others views are on it and if they see the concept of marriage as now outdated as well? I understand that this is looking at it with a very pessimistic viewpoint, glass half empty stance if you will.<br />
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Also I do believe that their is a societal expectation from friends and family that by a certain age you should be married, 2.5 kids, settled down with a fat mortgage along with other liabilities etc. However, by going against this assertion it can open up a lot of time, freedom and ultimately allow you to take more risks in pursuit of business endeavours.<br />
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Thoughts on this and whether you view it as a 'scripted' idealism would be interesting.<br />
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Best,<br />
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S
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</blockquote>Yeah, so I'm with you on this for sure and im western 1st world as well and im kinda on the bias side of growing up in a pretty abusive mom and dad relationship, but we have since mended things since, to be able to continue are familys business .<br />
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There is definitely a huge love problem in this world to begin with then you throw these social media devices in are hands and were all that much more anxious and dependent in the wrong manner.<br />
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Relationships definitely require allot of time and work to be successful but also they can make couples in there absolute best forms as well but it's definitely rare to see. IE: couples constantly practicing good habits , working out and healthy diets, staying proactively growing toward something like a goal, they both believe in.<br />
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I on the other hand have many female freinds that I simply have relationships with them and that we just maintain the freinds with benefits thing , but it does definitely put me in my alpha male state of mind on having allot of girlfriends and so much freedom with them going forward. I tend to see allot more production getting done within all parts of my life.<br />
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If I was to ever have kids and a family it would only be through common law. I just see no benefit in being married from the man perspective, see too many guys get destroyed from it. And also If a girl was to want to be with me in my life she would simply be okay with not being married and were together as is, basic female attraction to a alpha male leader , who basically says everyday " I got this " . Girls want that in a man and just get after it everyday.<br />
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i am pretty simple just clean diet, workout and run a business like every man should and you'l develop that sense that women crave out of men, and listen to rogan podcasts , thats about it.</div>
