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His first tip, only get married once and stay married, is a pretty good one.
by dmm 13y ago
His first tip, only get married once and stay married, is a pretty good one.
- nwenzel 13y agoDepends how you read it. Don't get divorced because divorce is expensive... not such good advice. Choose the right partner and don't settle so that you don't get divorced... good advice.
- jellicle 13y agoAnother way to say this is that staying married to the wrong person is extremely expensive in its own way.
- runjake 13y agoHer. The author is a her. Here's her Twitter page: https://twitter.com/JoyceWayne1951 https://twitter.com/JoyceWayne1951
- toomuchtodo 13y agoBecause knowing that the other person is going to snap/leave one day is completely determinable. Forgive me for my disbelief.
- aceperry 13y agoLOL, really. She should've known when she was younger, that she shouldn't have gotten married to the guy that she would eventually divorce. Very good hindsight/20:20 advice though.
- fixedd 13y agoYou can't imagine a scenario where your spouse may find something irritating, but for whatever reason choose to not mention it. Then, after years of daily annoyance, one day decides that it's too much and presents you with an "I thought it would get better, but...."? Making a blanket statement that one should know how someone else feels is ignoring that the other person may be actively trying to suppress/hide it.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI was being sarcastic. People change constantly. You can no more predict your future with someone than you can anything else.
- greenyoda 13y agoStaying married is not entirely under your control, since your spouse can file for divorce even if you think your marriage is doing well. Unfortunately, the only way of being certain that you'll never get divorced is to never get married. "Choosing the right partner" is good, but people change and grow apart and grow bored and meet other people who they might like better than their spouses. The "right partner" when you're in your twenties may not be the right partner twenty or thirty years later.
- a8da6b0c91d 13y agoThe author is a woman and statistically one could argue control over divorce in the modern west is with the woman. Among the college educated 90% of divorces are filed by women. More generally it's 70%, but some argue that when the husband files he's very often not doing it of his own accord. There are large numbers of divorced boomer women going into old age alone and poor figuring out they made a huge mistake. So for a female audience this is probably important advice.
- WalterSear 13y agoThat's like saying 'don't crash' is good driving advice.