Study Shows ONLY 2% of Married People Live in "Bliss" After 8 Years!

[Winston]

CE,
Come on man. You already have several of these anti-marriage threads. You don't need to create a new thread every time you want to share an article that portrays marriage bleakly. You can just post them in the existing threads you already started about the subject. I'm guessing you start new threads in order to have catchy headlines like this one right? lol. Geez. Next time you find an anti-marriage article you can just post it here. No need to create a new thread for each one man.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

CE,
Come on man. You already have several of these anti-marriage threads. You don't need to create a new thread every time you want to share an article that portrays marriage bleakly. You can just post them in the existing threads you already started about the subject. I'm guessing you start new threads in order to have catchy headlines like this one right? lol. Geez. Next time you find an anti-marriage article you can just post it here. No need to create a new thread for each one man.

True. These threads just tend to vex the pro-marriage cucks on the forum and they get a lot of views and comments too. Oddly enough, the pro-marriage cucks tend to comment on them the most.

[ladislav]

Is this a study in America? Less than 5% of world population?

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Is this a study in America? Less than 5% of world population?

Sample size is not the issue. The takeaway is super low rate of 2%.

So regardless of which society is looked at, one could infer that other societies of the world would clustered not far from 2%. Moreover, in the societies at the higher end of blissful marriages, they would be lucky to have rates approaching 10%.

Face it. Marriage sucks for everyone. It's time for people to stop perpetuating the deceit. It's an emotional realization for some, but a difficult truth is far healthier to take than a sweet lie.

For how many years have you been married? If you have never been married, then you know exactly what this is all about anyhow.

[HouseMD]

Is this a study in America? Less than 5% of world population?

Sample size is not the issue. The takeaway is super low rate of 2%.

So regardless of which society is looked at, one could infer that other societies of the world would clustered not far from 2%. Moreover, in the societies at the higher end of blissful marriages, they would be lucky to have rates approaching 10%.

Face it. Marriage sucks for everyone. It's time for people to stop perpetuating the deceit. It's an emotional realization for some, but a difficult truth is far healthier to take than a sweet lie.

For how many years have you been married? If you have never been married, then you know exactly what this is all about anyhow.

It's a bad deal for most men because your options are limited and you stand top loose everything and it's a bad deal for women because most men these days are pathetic. Makes me realize why certain cultures allowed men to have multiple wives- women get to share a quality man and the man has more options and can't be fleeced by a single woman up and leaving

[ladislav]

It all starts from a wrong premise. Marriage is not supposed to be " bliss". People get married either for love in some places- which is not necessarily " bliss" and/or to procreate/ have a family and to just live a normal life. Have kids. Is it " bliss"? Not really? It's just regular life. A matter or course. Nor necessarily all people expect eternal bliss from it. Most do not. But living alone is hard for a lot of people. Plus, many feel kids should have a mom and dad.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Marriage is not supposed to be " bliss".

Well that is the promoted expectation in the West, especially with regard to women.

People get married either for love in some places- which is not necessarily " bliss" and/or to procreate/ have a family and to just live a normal life. Have kids.

That's far too narrow a set of reasons why people marry. They marry for all kinds of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with love or procreation. Some people marry for financial reasons, for security, for access to good sex, to lock down a partner, by family mandate, by community mandate, etc.

Is it " bliss"? Not really? It's just regular life.

I would not say it is regular life at all. It is becoming irregular life given the falling marriage rates and rising divorce rates.

But living alone is hard for a lot of people.

Now THAT is a false premise because who says you have to live alone simply because you choose to be unmarried?

Plus, many feel kids should have a mom and dad.

Yet another false premise because who says you cannot have both a mom and dad simply because they chose to not be married? Many unmarried couples raise children together. Even more raise them with joint custody.

[Cornfed]

If the Harvey Weinstein verdict is not reversed on appeal, you’d have to say that it is well and truly time to abandon marriage until the ZOG is overthrown. If your wife can say one day that a single one time of the thousands of times you had sex years ago she didn’t consent - not that you forced her or she indicated that she didn’t want sex but just that her internal state wasn’t one of “consent” - and you get imprisoned for decades based entirely on that, you would have to conclude that is finally the last straw.

[ladislav]

Marriage is not supposed to be " bliss".

Well that is the promoted expectation in the West, especially with regard to women.

People get married either for love in some places- which is not necessarily " bliss" and/or to procreate/ have a family and to just live a normal life. Have kids.

That's far too narrow a set of reasons why people marry. They marry for all kinds of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with love or procreation. Some people marry for financial reasons, for security, for access to good sex, to lock down a partner, by family mandate, by community mandate, etc.

Is it " bliss"? Not really? It's just regular life.

I would not say it is regular life at all. It is becoming irregular life given the falling marriage rates and rising divorce rates.

But living alone is hard for a lot of people.

Now THAT is a false premise because who says you have to live alone simply because you choose to be unmarried?

Plus, many feel kids should have a mom and dad.

Yet another false premise because who says you cannot have both a mom and dad simply because they chose to not be married? Many unmarried couples raise children together. Even more raise them with joint custody.

I actually should have stipulated that I was not talking about the USA. Here in SE Asia, you would not be allowed by community and sometimes even the law to live with a partner if unmarried. But in some countries here, if you are, then you are considered husband and wife anyway.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Marriage is not supposed to be " bliss".

Well that is the promoted expectation in the West, especially with regard to women.

People get married either for love in some places- which is not necessarily " bliss" and/or to procreate/ have a family and to just live a normal life. Have kids.

That's far too narrow a set of reasons why people marry. They marry for all kinds of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with love or procreation. Some people marry for financial reasons, for security, for access to good sex, to lock down a partner, by family mandate, by community mandate, etc.

Is it " bliss"? Not really? It's just regular life.

I would not say it is regular life at all. It is becoming irregular life given the falling marriage rates and rising divorce rates.

But living alone is hard for a lot of people.

Now THAT is a false premise because who says you have to live alone simply because you choose to be unmarried?

Plus, many feel kids should have a mom and dad.

Yet another false premise because who says you cannot have both a mom and dad simply because they chose to not be married? Many unmarried couples raise children together. Even more raise them with joint custody.

I actually should have stipulated that I was not talking about the USA. Here in SE Asia, you would not be allowed by community and sometimes even the law to live with a partner if unmarried. But in some countries here, if you are, then you are considered husband and wife anyway.

I was not referring to the USA either. I was speaking in an international context, especially the cultures of the Western societies.

And as so far as the “magically married” scenarios you pointed out in SEA, there is no marriage unless there is a documented certificate or decision of the courts.

I can think of no government that imposes marital status on anyone against his will. The common law marriage argument is an anomaly, and it usually gets invoked when BOTH parties want to be considered married for legal purposes.

[Yohan]

Study Shows ONLY 2% of Married People Live in "Bliss" After 8 Years!

If this study is about Western countries and married couples, I think this is true - if we talk about the husband only and not about the wife.

In Western statistics any divorce past 10 years of marriage will be counted as 'marriage fulfilled' and not as 'divorce'.

The divorce rate in Western countries is often up to 70 percent within 10 years past marriage.
The majority of divorces is initiated by women as divorce is a lucrative action for the ex-wife, but rarely for the ex-husband.
It's getting even more complicated and expensive for the ex-husband in case of children.

About the other 30 percent who are still married within 10 years:
Many husbands prefer to continue a relationship despite it makes them feeling unhappy.

Later on when their children are adults already, they might consider divorce, but not earlier, due to legal concern... child support, alimony for the 'housewife, loss of house or condominium unit, loss of a huge part of their savings, afraid of being alone and lonely in future, facing scorn from relatives or co-workers etc. - They remain married, but what marriage is this? So or so, such a husband and father is nothing but a second class citizen, just good for paying bills. To live together with a woman who is nothing but psycho and a control-freak is not nice.

Maybe - if we talk ONLY about the husband and his feelings within 10 years of marriage in Western countries, 2 % might be true...

Nowadays marriage in Western countries does not make any sense for a man.

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However let me say, the legal situation in not pro-feminist orientated Asian countries is not that bad for men and being married is not that bad either.


Most Asian governments are not very supportive to feminist ideology and wrongdoing by malicious women - in general a man is not worse off than a woman and there is no support for women who are insisting in 'their female rights' like abortion free of charge, contraceptives from the school nurse for their daughters, pregnant from another man despite being married and similar BS-demands...

[Taco]

Yeah, they wrote a song about it...