Got her number? :D

You couldn't afford her........unless you're rich and single;) :D

Why can't we have another option....married and rich? I'd take that in a heartbeat!:D

I'll just use John Kerry's technique :p

It seems that all women want to get married one day. It is a sense of security. They do not like being alone, they need men to share their stress with.

With men, we don't want to be tied down to everyday life. The burden of children, the idea that our youth may be long past. With us, we never want to grow old. We never lose this mindset until the day we die.

Just me, citing the obvious again....:rolleyes:

I guess it depends on what you mean by "rich" and "poor"

If we are talking about Ozark mountain, beat your clothes on a rock by the crick, dirt floor poor, I'll take rich and single.

Otherwise I'm pretty happy being married and semi poor.

39 with a small buisness, probably right in the middle of middle class.

I would like to married and rich. LOL

Well, kinda. I'm looking forward at the "growing old" part, and looking back on the "tied down with Childeren" part.
The child raising years were tough. Very tough. I'm glad I'm thru it. But like any challenge in life, I'm glad it's done, but I'm also glad I did it. I'm a much better person than I was 25 years ago. I'm a person I wouldn't be, had I not gone thru the parenting years.
Growing old is scarey. Watching my folks get old, sick, and die, is no picnic, and I don't like the idea of doing it myself. But what the heck do ya do? It's inevitable. So, I'm just accepting losing my hair where I want it, gaining hair where I don't need it. The wife has definately lost her girlish figure, but darn it, I love her more now than 25 years ago. We have great sex, enjoy being together, hate being apart, and spend alot of time laughing at each others' "getting old" symptoms.:D
Life's a kick, eh?:cool:

Actually, I love kids -- kids are great! It's the wife part I struggle with......

There is a saying that children are the wealth of the poor, and presumably, now a days, about half the folks that have children are married........

Gosh.. children are that much of a drag to you guys? The joy of children cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Being married is great. Being single is also great. Both have their merits and drawbacks. And who says that being married is automatically equated with being poor?

Hee hee. I guess I kinda made it(raising kids) sound bad, didn't I? Naw. Years filled with fun, too. But it's just something that, when you get to the other side of the journey as I am, you look back and go "Whew!" with a wipe of the brow.:D It's work, no doubt about it. Hard work alot of the time. But the rewards...:cool:
There's nothing to take the place of having a 5 year old snuggle up in your lap and watch a fav cartoon together. Or the fun of teaching them to ride a bike. Or watching them recive their high school diploma. Or walking your oldest daughter down the aisle to her new hubby.
You guys can have your rich and single lifestyle. Take it. I don't want it.

I have a 6 year old nephew who never stops harassing me. My other nephews are merely toddlers.

My 6 year old nephew calls me "Uncle Scrooge".:D

I don't really dislike children, I am just thinking about how it would be to raise a kid like myself.:rolleyes:

I have mixed feelings...

On the one hand, $$ isn't everything, and it certainly doesn't buy happiness. Having kids can be a joy (I asume; haven't had any, although I do work with teenage girls in my Scout unit), and a life without someone can be very lonely.

On the other hand, being poor leads to a whole heck of a lot of stress. I spent the last week unsure if I was going to have enough food for this week. In addition, the rate of marriages ending in divorce is extremely high, and at least of what I've seen of divorce (family {including my parents}, movies, etc), it doesn't seem like the risk of going through that is worth taking the chance, even if you feel certain that she's "the one". There's also the overpopulartion factor and the fact that I'm not sure I want to contribute to that.

A year ago, I would have voted for "married and poor" without thinking twice, but I think I'm starting to lean towards the "single and rich" option...

The divorce issue...
Well, I suppose a defeatist perspective would keep us all away from alot of things in life.
There's alot of things to strain a marriage today that our parents and grand parents didn't face. So yes, I'd say careful selection of a mate is important. Even as careful as I was, we almost ended our marriage a few years ago. But the key factor is, we didn't! It was that careful selection that got us thru it.
I have no pat answers. I have lots of things I could give as advice, but may not be appropriate here. A lot of it has to do with my religion. (we have one of the lowest divorce rates in the country) But if 2 people go into it with their eyes open, I still feel they have a good chance. Watching my daughter getting married last summer was a tough thing, knowing what they have ahead of them. But they talked alot of things out first, and have good goals together. But their big mistake is not havinga common religion. I don't want to turn this into a religion discussion. But it is an important factor. If religion isn't a factor in your life, but is in the person you marry, or visa-versa, it will become a problem in the future. And so on.
I think a big mistake is this pre-nup agreement crap. Talk about putting a death sentance on a marriage! Don't get me going on that one:mad:

P.S. I see narwahl beat me to the punch here. but we agree on this point I see:cool: