Ladies: Do you want to know why so many guys won't commit?

Question

Here's why...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/05/megadivorce.ap/index.html

It just isn't worth it! A woman can be a housewife and just wake up one morning and say to herself, "Hmmmm, I think I'll divorce my husband and take 1/2 of everything that he has....not becuase he is abusive or a cheater, but just because I feel like it" And our effed up legal system in this country awards her half a billion dollars.

There you go!

Answer 1

Oh please... if that was the reason then more women would fear commitment. A woman gives all her effort, love, time and commitment to someone and he wakes up and decides that he would rather have sexual freedom. He throws a little money at the "problem" and walks away. Most likely the women won't end up with 184 million dollars but a couple kids, a mortgaged home with a leaky roof and late child support payments. That's a story you won't see in the news because it is way more common then your example.

Yes, some people suck and marriage and monogamy but it is not limited by gender.

Answer 2

ohhh please, most women do not wake up and decide that they want to divorce their husbands. How would it sound if I said that some men wake up in the morning and say to themselves "I thing I'm going to have an affair and then I'll divorce my wife". These things just happen. Women emotionalize everything, if they don't they are not real women. The reason why the legal system awards more money to women and not men is because traditional men were the bread winners in the house and the woman stayed home to care for the house and the children. The ex-wife had to have some means to support and feed her children while she found some other means of putting food on the table and a roof over their heads. Even now in our society, it is extremely difficult for a newly divorced stay-at-home mom to reenter the workforce. That's why some many of them end up on welfare. The courts know this and have decided that the husband should help support the wife while she gets back on her feet. I have known many women who were divorced by their husbands and never took one red cent. So get a life.

Answer 3

we are 6 billion with resources starting to run low. If the divorce laws discourage a couple of men from forming families it aint all that bad.
Face it girls no matter how you rant on about "marriage aint all about money" "it takes 2 to tango" etc bla bla. Right about now more than 1 out of 2 marriages ends in divorce. The woman gets alimony and half the assets and child support TAX FREE. The man is getting taxed on what he earns. A man who earns like 3000 a month has maybe 800 left to live on after paying alimony child support and taxes.
There is one word for men who marry thesedays: Stupid.

Answer 4

Why don't men wonder why women are no longer anxious to commit?
Because we work full time and don't need the hassle of catering to a neurotic man who can't operate the can opener or pick his clothes up. He will, eventually look at you sadly and tell you he needs to get his head together, and it will be with the young dumb secretary from his office. Leaving you with the kids and the house and the bills you both made.
He gets an apartment with a leather couch, and you get jelly stains on your "interview blouse" trying to get a better job, because he found out that he expects more in bachelorhood now than he did when he was having good times with his frat boy friends. And he can't afford two apartments, so there goes the home your kids thought they would be in forever.
Eventually he breaks up with the sweet cookie and drifts from home, kids hang out at the window waiting for Daddy who soon assumes mythic proportions in kids eyes since they hardly ever seen him anymore, then one day his phone no longer answers and hes gone. For good, or not, he never lets her know. No more child support either.
Half a billion dollars? Too funny, try $120 in twenty years.
I did hear he told his new wife I spent millions of his money.
He never did make more than eight thousand a year so it would be impossible, but no more impossible than some of the other stories he told.
I did remarry to a wonderful man, but if he hadn't been so wonderful and wanted to commit I never, never would have married. Especially to a man without the cojones to commit.
You see, I know why a man won't commit.
I wonder why men don't see that now its the women who don't want marriage.

Answer 5

It does not exactly go like that most times. A man has a better job/carreer, begins to move in high society. Somewhere along the line he meets a younger and prettier woman, he gets home takes one look at his wife and cant even get it up again. He wakes up and says to his wife "Hmmmm i think i need a divorce!" more like it.Not because the wife is a cheater or abusive, but just because of the promise of a younger and prettier woman out there.

Answer 6

You are one sad lil man...............why is it that MEN are always the ones who supposedly decide whether or not they want to commit, that was in the old days because women had to more or less go by what men said because men "are so great so they should make the rules"....wel sunshine just so you know us women are actually not arsed about commitment anymore because 80% of you men are moaning annoying pains in the **** your mostly here just to spawn and thats it and luckily for us we have our vibrators which means you's definitly aren't needed much anymore women are alot more stronger now we have our own opinions and thats what pisses you men off , I'm in a relationship myself the last 4years and I couldnt be happier but its men like that lad there that REALLY PISS me off get a grip lad!!!!

Answer 7

Yes. nowadays very sadly that is true. Well, I'm one of those women who believes in staying, even if the going gets rough and for me a few times it did get rough. These days too many people no longer want to work hard, they just want everything handed to them on a silver plate; marriage takes dedication and it takes work; something I am not afraid to do. Look at my profile it says that I live in Saudi Arabia. My living in Saudi Arabia bears no difference at all whether I want to or don't want to work on something. Out of the 23yrs I've been married I've lived 13 here in the kingdom, but you want to know the truth my roughest time was actually in the states, still, I stuck with it and I never gave up. A good marriage is not handed to you on a silver plate; you have to work at it and you have to be willing to work at it hard; perhaps people will be like me and get results; hadn't I got the results I was looking for; I would have divorced him; only I worked at it first.

Answer 8

Well, this day and age, I must say that I agree with you a bit. Sadly, everyone that I know is like that. The women are selfish b**ches who think that their husbands owe them something. I'm like the only one around here (my area) that thinks this is wrong. I guess that's because I would rather take care of myself. There are too many men out there who are getting screwed. I don't blame them at all for not wanted to commit. I sincerely hope that they try it though, because fortunately, not ALL women are like that.

Answer 9

Half of everything he has? Do you forget that in a partnership/marraige, both the man and woman make financial contributions?
And how many women actually do divorce their husbands just so they can take half of everything the husband supposedly owns himself or has bought with his own money?
I want to see real statistics before I believe this tripe.

Answer 10

Which explains why the majority of families who live below the poverty line are headed by single mothers. And don't tell me that they are women who never married the many fathers of their children. The majority are divorced women who are trying to raise their families without help from the fathers of those children.
The number of people living in poverty in the United States increased for the second year in a row, according to Census Bureau data released Sept. 26, 2006. 1.7 million more people were classified as living below the poverty line in 2002 than during the previous year, for a total of 34.6 million people—including 12.1 million children—living in poverty. Over two years, there were 3 million more poor people in 2002 than in 2000.
The news was particularly bad for single mothers. Although only 20% of all families are headed by single mothers, half of all the families living in poverty are headed by single mothers. The poverty rate for female-headed households is three times that of all households. Additionally, one-fifth of all homes headed by working single mothers slide below the poverty line.
I'm not blaming you guys for this, but YOU can't say that all women go into marriage looking for a guy's cash and then file for divorce. If that were the case, these women and children wouldn't be living in poverty the way they are.