...says the nagging wife.
Speaking of which, I thought that Facebook was the reason for the high divorce rate.
Not that I'm NOT a bitter old curmudgeon, but I don't think this particular argument is one that bitter old curmudgeons are prone to make. If I was going for curmudgeonly, I would have probably blamed "the MTV" or "the kids and their music these days" or parenting or some such. The culture cheapening what used to be an ironclad lifetime commitment or whatever.
Why do you write like you're answering a question on an SAT exam?
Marriage is a compression wrap?
Spoken like a true unmarried person. Marriage isn't some kind of magic lasso that binds two people together. It requires a lot of work, a lot of time and a lot of conscious effort to succeed at. But that's no different than any other relationship, whether it's boss -> employee or parent -> child. Marriage has always been for the unprepared, and it's only through the tempering of that relationship through time and hardship that familial steel is produced.
Surprisingly, the areas of the country where divorce rates are lowest are the blue states, which include any state leaning towards the Democratic ticket, while red states, which lean towards the Republican ticket, have the highest divorce rate. For example, Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas, voted overwhelmingly for constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage, but those three states had the highest divorce rates in 2003, based on figures from the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics. In one of the reports from the same group, a survey of 7,043 people stated that residents of the Northeast and West are commonly noted for their more liberal leanings in politics and lifestyle. However, the region of the nation in which divorce was least likely was the Northeast. The state with the lowest divorce rate was Massachusetts. In 2003 the rate in Massachusetts was 5.7 divorces per 1,000 married people compared with 10.8 in Kentucky, 11.1 in Mississippi and 12.7 in Arkansas.
Are you a psychic then? I have been married for 5 years already with 3 kids -- 2 girls and 1 boy. Your viewpoint of marriage and divorce might be a little different from the way we view it here in my country. I am not based in USA. When we don't own responsibility, that's when society will get upside down. Being responsible does not mean living your life with guilt, it just means that you are willing to correct mistakes and if not possible then accept that you are also a human being definitely not perfect.
Do you live in whatever country we outsource fortune cookie writing and hallmark cards to?
What about you? Do you live in a country already cursed by nature because it is so ungrateful for all the blessings it received thru the centuries? A country whose people are not really happy with all the abundance it got?
I agree, it's delicious.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all the imperialism and oppression I'm creating.
