IN THE WORD OF GENERAL BULKARTER, VERY INTERESTING
2007-02-09 11:39:51
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answered by Cy Gold 4
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Yes, I have a few comments, and facts to back it up. Studies show that single men are more likely to suffer from depression than single women. Single women take better care of themselves (health wise) and develop a closer relationship with friends than single men do. As for you anecdotal evidence, maybe that's all you ever see because it's what you WANT to see. I'm happily married, but many of my friends are single and ARE NOT sitting around bemoaning the fact that they are "man-less." They are enjoying doing things they love, and having close relationships with friends and family. Of course, my single friends are younger than 35, (late twenties, early thirties) but I think the single women versus single men with depression statistics show that single women are apparently HAPPIER than single men. I'm sorry...does that make you sad? Because it sounds like you really, REALLY want to believe that woman are not as happy (read: just as miserable) as you are.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/408844_5
2007-02-10 03:09:15
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answered by wendy g 7
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Looks like your unfounded, baseless and quite ridiculous assumption is about to be dispelled (cheers!):
"Why women are abandoning men"
Remember the days when little girls grew up dreaming about a knight in shining armor whisking them off their feet to live happily ever after? Remember when a woman's foremost fantasy was finding the man of her dreams?
Well, that's all over now as women are abandoning men in droves and learning to find happiness completely on their own. Two astonishing studies show just how alarming the trend has become.
First, there was the study, from the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University and others, that two-thirds of all divorces today are initiated by women. These numbers beggar belief.
RESEARCH SHOWS that when a man leaves his marriage he is usually leaving for another woman. Men, especially those who have already been married, don't function well on their own. They need to be taken care of. So it is rare for a man to leave his marriage unless he is leaving for someone else.
Often he trades in the mother of his children for someone who is younger and more submissive. But for wives, the very opposite is true.
Ninety percent of all women who leave their husbands go out into the wild blue yonder. They are leaving their husbands and accepting what is often lifelong single status. They would rather be alone than stay with a man who does not appreciate them. They would rather live by themselves than with a husband who doesn't speak to them, who won't share of his inner self, and who chooses the company of the TV over theirs.
The single woman may live in loneliness. But she lives with the hope that one day she will find a soul-mate who cherishes her. But what does the married woman who is abandoned have to look forward to? In my 20 years of counseling, I have discovered that the loneliest women of all are married!
An even more shocking statistic was released last Monday by The New York Times. For the first time in American history a majority of women are living without a husband. The Times reported that 51% of all women are living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.
How could this possibly be?
SIMPLY STATED, women are giving up on men. Whereas they once harbored hope that men could satisfy their needs and make them feel appreciated, today they are finding far greater satisfaction in career over companionship and from female friends over husbands.
These are the consequences for a culture that for half a century has mercilessly exploited women as a man's plaything...
Now, unless women are complete toadies and sycophants, this is not something they're going to put up with for long. So they're dumping their husbands and abandoning the whole concept of marriage…
And it's not the women who suffer most. It's the men...
2007-02-10 02:20:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, no offence but you don't sound that fulfilled and happy to me, otherwise you wouldn't be trying to make women in the same position as you feel bad. I think deep down, maybe you are maybe feeilng a little bitter and lonely?
Take care and stay positive : )
2007-02-09 22:21:28
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answered by Anonymous
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There's a time and a season for everything. I just wonder how long you have been divorced, living by yourself with alot of time on your hands to play on YAhoo, answers. I know for a fact that you miss that little lady that sang the sad song because you never measured up. IN ANYTHING, including the bedroom. THe only thing you do have time for is to hang out with the cotton club boys, you know the old, divorced crew, viagra happy older men group. All they do is complain about the child support that they have to pay. Im glad to be one of those ladies, because no matter how you look at it, you came from a woman, you bust plenty of nuts in a woman, and no matter how you run from us you still will have to be bothered with our new president that's goning to be. Enjoy it, love it, like it, because it's true
2007-02-09 19:17:30
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answered by sodgirl6763 4
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I absolutely love being 40.... life is great because I choose it to be and my man has it all as well. Depression is never a thought, we are having waaaaaaaaaaaay too much fun to EVER be depressed !!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh life is good !!
: )
2007-02-09 20:34:50
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answered by Kitty 6
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Women don't need kids and a man in order to be happy anymore than men need it. Their lives are no different from yours other than they have a vagina. If a woman decides she needs a husband to be happy, good for her, but that doesn't mean her whole life sucks because she hasn't found one yet.
2007-02-09 19:18:16
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answered by 1 4
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Life BEGINS at 40! 40 is when I began to believe in myself, to stop caring so much what everyone thought about me (I chose 2 or 3 people to be accountable to), to have fun!
40 is when I began to be who I was meant to be. I stopped searching for what I was "supposed" to be, and started being who I was...whoever that was! At 40, I stopped "waiting for life to begin" and started living.
By the way...I'm getting married for the first time this year, and have no kids. Life is GREAT!
2007-02-09 21:51:10
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answered by janejane 5
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Supposedly, a woman peaks sexually in her late 30s. I don't know though. I'm not even 30 yet.
2007-02-09 19:12:07
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answered by philyra2 4
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if your 35 and not married and no kids, it's probably because you were not worth ANYTHING at all to any man, because you just can't get through the idea that you sucked so bad that no man wanted to do anything with you, because you couldn't use your brains and be a woman, woman need to compliment men, which you couldn't do, so if your 35 and not married, might as well kill yourself.
2007-02-10 14:05:19
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answered by Psychee 2
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why are you on here posting a question that is almost exactly the same as another question you have posted before you need to get over this inferiority complex you have with women
2007-02-10 04:44:48
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answered by Morganna 5
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