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What's with everyone getting a divorce?
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jiberish



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because they realised marrying for money and comfort is dumb? My co-teacher says all of her friends that are married (pretty much all of her friends) are very unhappy and all they do is complain about it when they meet.
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jvalmer



Joined: 06 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jiberish wrote:
Because they realised marrying for money and comfort is dumb? My co-teacher says all of her friends that are married (pretty much all of her friends) are very unhappy and all they do is complain about it when they meet.


They'd be equally unhappy if they were struggling to pay the bills and always wondering if the next month someone will lose their job and will be forced out of their home.
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reactionary



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ashland wrote:
probably because korean spouses don't like when their foreign husbands/wives spend way too much time on dave's? jk

it's not true for korean-japanese couples though... only 8% divorce rates.
the worst is korean-chinese couples... about 70%.
does it mean something?


I bet that's a class issue more than anything else. I doubt there are quite as many imported Japanese wives getting married to farmers as there are Chinese...
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Wishmaster



Joined: 06 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, marriage(especially in Korea) is a sham. All based on materialism and producing offspring. But that gets old pretty fast. Then one realizes that there life revolves around their kid, along with the absurd expenses of said kid, as well as the annoying mother in laws and the rat race that is Korea and keeping up with everyone else. I'm surprised that the suicide rate isn't higher.
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TDC troll



Joined: 03 Feb 2009
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tzechuk , first let me say that Im very sorry about your divorce.
I haven't commented on these boards very often ,because , I'm really busy.

I got married the first time in Korea back in 1996.
I have a beautiful daughter out of that marriage.

That marriage lasted all of two and a half years.

I have now been married (second marriage)
about ten years .

Anyway , if divorce has to be than it has to be .
Especially , if there is any kind of violence happening.

Marriage is about love , after all , isn't it ?
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ashland



Joined: 05 Dec 2008

PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

reactionary wrote:
ashland wrote:
probably because korean spouses don't like when their foreign husbands/wives spend way too much time on dave's? jk

it's not true for korean-japanese couples though... only 8% divorce rates.
the worst is korean-chinese couples... about 70%.
does it mean something?


I bet that's a class issue more than anything else. I doubt there are quite as many imported Japanese wives getting married to farmers as there are Chinese...


right on.
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Lunar Groove Gardener



Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It may just be incidental.

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Bramble



Joined: 26 Jan 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm starting to wonder if Ashland is Tzechuk's ex.
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nautilus



Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jvalmer wrote:
jiberish wrote:
Because they realised marrying for money and comfort is dumb? My co-teacher says all of her friends that are married (pretty much all of her friends) are very unhappy and all they do is complain about it when they meet.


They'd be equally unhappy if they were struggling to pay the bills and always wondering if the next month someone will lose their job and will be forced out of their home.


Maybe. On the other hand I have known plenty of happy couples who were actually quite poor. But they got along very well because of factors like rapport, a strong bond, commitment, chemistry, love, humor, etc etc.And especially, communication.

I think a lot depends on each partners initial expectations. Seems that a lot of people marry without first ironing out exactly what they (often secretly) expect from eachother and their reasons for getting married.
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D.D.



Joined: 29 May 2008

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its called the reticular activating system in your brain. Tomorrow think Of grey cars and then wow observe all the grey cars. Brain can actively select or repress what we notice.
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roknroll



Joined: 29 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D.D. wrote:
Its called the reticular activating system in your brain. Tomorrow think Of grey cars and then wow observe all the grey cars. Brain can actively select or repress what we notice.


OK, I'll try: clean, spit-free streets (and the concomitant refined ajoshees); passive ajummas; courteous cab drivers; patient bus drivers; guess that's enough for now... Smile
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