Married People Savor Their Misery: A Warning ⚠️

[Contrarian Expatriate]

His advice is mainly for the Anglo world. Here in Cambodia, marriages are strong, kids are sane, society is mentally healthy, most women are virgins and so it is in the majority of the world. Remember that any wisdom given in English by a Western citizen is usually locale- dependent.

Marriage is undue intrusion of the state into the personal lives of a couples ALL OVER THE WORLD. There is no cultural excuse for ever thinking that a man should subject himself to it.

Have you ever been married? If not, what are you waiting for if it is so defensible in your view?

[Cornfed]

[Marriage is undue intrusion of the state into the personal lives of a couples ALL OVER THE WORLD. There is no cultural excuse for ever thinking that a man should subject himself to it.

The survival of the species and the maintenance of civilisation would seem to be valid excuses.

[hypermak]

His advice is mainly for the Anglo world. Here in Cambodia, marriages are strong, kids are sane, society is mentally healthy, most women are virgins and so it is in the majority of the world. Remember that any wisdom given in English by a Western citizen is usually locale- dependent.

I think the truth is that only the more traditional societies still have what it takes to keep a marriage together, with all the ups and downs of course. If the girl and even the boy are virgin at marriage, they will start their relationship from the same platform, it will be the same kind of journey of discovery for both.

If the man and/or the woman had a few romantic/sexual experiences, the temptation to sway or devalue what the partner can give is much higher. Let's add the constant temptation machine that social media and porn are, and we have a more complete picture.

CE is singling out marriage as humanity's biggest evil but the reality is that human relationships are way too fragile nowadays for ANY kind of relationship to be solid and last very long.

Of course there's his approach, to live for himself and himself only, throwing a few coins at the ladies when needed. And there is nothing wrong with that per se. Or there is the approach I respect infinitely more, which is that of putting some serious effort to find a decent woman and at least trying to commit. If a marriage fails there is divorce, which can sometimes be devastating when kids and shared assets are involved. Yet, at least looking at it from a European perspective, most failed marriages end in relatively amicable divorces. Horror stories always tend to make front page compared to non-eventful breakups, it's normal.

[josephty2]

His advice is mainly for the Anglo world. Here in Cambodia, marriages are strong, kids are sane, society is mentally healthy, most women are virgins and so it is in the majority of the world. Remember that any wisdom given in English by a Western citizen is usually locale- dependent.

I think the truth is that only the more traditional societies still have what it takes to keep a marriage together, with all the ups and downs of course. If the girl and even the boy are virgin at marriage, they will start their relationship from the same platform, it will be the same kind of journey of discovery for both.

If the man and/or the woman had a few romantic/sexual experiences, the temptation to sway or devalue what the partner can give is much higher. Let's add the constant temptation machine that social media and porn are, and we have a more complete picture.

CE is singling out marriage as humanity's biggest evil but the reality is that human relationships are way too fragile nowadays for ANY kind of relationship to be solid and last very long.

Of course there's his approach, to live for himself and himself only, throwing a few coins at the ladies when needed. And there is nothing wrong with that per se. Or there is the approach I respect infinitely more, which is that of putting some serious effort to find a decent woman and at least trying to commit. If a marriage fails there is divorce, which can sometimes be devastating when kids and shared assets are involved. Yet, at least looking at it from a European perspective, most failed marriages end in relatively amicable divorces. Horror stories always tend to make front page compared to non-eventful breakups, it's normal.

These kind of questions are a pure waste of time. In America divorce is no doubt common, because certain tastes are not favored.

I haven't yet described these "tastes" and "opinions", but some movies, the transcript says "move to Europe" or "move to France" or "move to Africa". Now, don't actually move there, I'm just trying to describe a concept.

People do actually take that subtle advice from the producer/director, and after a few years, the demographics completely change. (not race/ethnicity/gender).