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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| PolyChronic Time Girl wrote: |
| But I think there's a price to pay in the future: she wants me knocked up and making kimchi at home. |
Damn women. Get your ass back in the kitchen and make me some kimchi!
Doesn't really have the same ring does it? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
Studies show that premarital cohabitaion is damaging to the marriage. Couples are twice as likely go get divorced.
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Argh! Studies do not show any such thing. I'm not trying to make an argument for cohabitation, because I'm quite old-fashioned in some ways, but there's a vast difference between correlation and causation.
Studies have shown that people who cohabit have a higher rate of divorce. The two tend to coincide. What does that mean? Well, it could mean all sorts of things. I suspect it means that people who move in together before they get married are "trying things out" so that if it doesn't work, they can bail. Among these people, those who do get married might be more open to an escape route like divorce. Nobody can say for sure what this statistic means or why these people are shacking up, then splitting up.
I admire those people who approach marriage with a healthy fear, and support anyone who "does their homework" and learns all they can about the person they want to pledge themselves to. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| sparkx wrote: |
| kangnamdragon wrote: |
Studies show that premarital cohabitaion is damaging to the marriage. Couples are twice as likely go get divorced.
Who says it does not raise eyebrows? I think 1/2 the people in the country would think it is wrong in the States. |
meh..statistics, schmatistics.
Stats don't take into account happiness. My guess would be that the marginal number of people who tilt the balance in favor of non-cohabitation before marriage are miserable as all hell but feel obligated to stay together due to asinine religious beliefs and/or feelings of guilt.
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Twice is marginal? My guess would be that those people you mentioned are a very small number. As for why they stay together, maybe those people have a higher committment to marriage and therefore try harder to keep the marriage functional and happy. Marriage is about compromise. In today's instant gratification it's -all- about- me society, that is difficult enough. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| PolyChronic Time Girl wrote: |
| But I think there's a price to pay in the future: she wants me knocked up and making kimchi at home. |
Damn women. Get your ass back in the kitchen and make me some kimchi!
Doesn't really have the same ring does it? |
It doesn't? Well, how about these ones?
What did you do wrong when your wife comes out of the kitchen to nag you? (made the chain too long)
What's worse than a male chauvinist pig? (a woman who doesn't do as she's told)
Jez whup mah hide & call me Daichidong! I've got a million more where those came from! I'm jez full of 'em! 
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