Originally Posted by fintstone (Post 11567059)

I am not sure that I would consider three weeks to constitute a relationship…just an extended date.

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas (Post 11567057)

I don't like a relationship to last much more than three weeks.

Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 11567086)

That's why the iPhone has a "timer" app.

Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 11565561)

also gotta love the passive aggressive boomer logic that exist here. i get rapped on all the time in PARF for being unmarried, as if it makes me unsuccessful, and then in divorce threads everyone is like being married sucks. same posters most of the time.

Originally Posted by fintstone (Post 11567050)

To each their own. I have been married over 45 years to my first real girlfriend that I met in high school. Even given the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, I cannot imagine doing things drastically different. Only had two kids, but sorta wish I had more now because they have busy lives and I wish some lived closer, had more time to visit. All are building similarly great lived of their own. I suspect the traditional, happily married guys is very little fun/excitement as compared to those that chose another path. As far as money, a team of two working together for many decades while sharing expenses is pretty hard to beat. Especially with 2x50+ years of savings, retirement pensions, 401k, and other investments.

As far as intimacy, for a happily married guy, it is a sure thing almost every night…and pretty much any other time the day while many singles go to bars and strike out…or drift between bad relationships. Like a lot of things, marriage is very, very good if done well. It is all about making good choices and commitment. Judging the institution based on those that did not go well is like chugging a cheap, skunky beer and deciding that all beer is disgusting.

Most of the stories you hear from married and divorced guys have another side. You only get one perspective. Both partners have to work on a relationship of any type for it to work. People have bad days and arguments all the time with other people, it just is more painful when you really care about what the other thinks…and if you don’t care, you are probably the problem.

Old folks that I know without a partner seem very lonely. Some day, work is over, playtime is not really a physical possibly, and you are alone.

Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 11565676)

I did not get married until I was in my mid 30's.

It had zero to do with the women I dated; some were great, all conference or better...I just saw the detritus of how hard the military is on relationships and decided to wait for the right person or accept the results of my indecision.

Mattered little to me.

I got lucky.

Now, should I goon my marriage after over 30 years, I go Shaolin Temple.

Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 11567137)

never been ripped on for being unmarried , not in parf or anywhere.
So not sure why you are, maybe it's something else you said to trigger that? after all, it is PARF you are talking about ... SmileWavy

Originally Posted by Crowbob (Post 11567222)

And you prolly think there’s only one issue of Playboy, too.

Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 11566744)

and that didn't exactly happen. 1. no one gives a **** what old white dudes think, we all just moved on. like society is past them by. and 2. old white dudes are pissed as **** that the life they were promised, the life they spent 20-30 years suffering for ... doesn't exist. they spent years toiling under a lie.

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv (Post 11567393)

I lived my life on my terms and was happy for it. You should be too.

Originally Posted by speeder (Post 11567414)

My Mom, who was married twice and only single for a couple of years between age 25 and 87, (death), used to say, "there are worse things than being alone." :)