Since the divorce rate is 50%, we'll start there. Actually, now that I think about it, it can end there. I wouldn't bet $20 on a coin toss, yet millions of people bet their LIVES on one every year.
But from what I've read and witnessed, a coin toss would be GREAT odds compared to reality. So what are the odds of marrying a woman and it REALLY being "happily ever after? 1 in 4? One in 10? WORSE?
It's illegal to bet $10 on a basketball bracket. Yet we ENCOURAGE young people to go all-in on their lives against almost insurmountable odds ALL THE TIME. Every time I read yet ANOTHER post of a man who is SHOCKED to learn his wife has checked out, I just shake my head. That's like being "shocked" that the little metal ball on the roulette wheel didn't land on 26 and you lost $1,000. I can give THAT gambler great advice on not making that bet. Don't do it. But your daughter is getting married? CONGRATULATIONS! Drinks are on me.
One frat boy punk makes a single racist/sexist comment to another frat boy punk and the world mobilized to try and eliminate this scar on humanity. "WE WILL FIX THIS, damnit"!! Yet we encourage our kids, our daughters, to take a leap of faith into an arrangement that we KNOW will probably fail.
I don't get it.
But from what I've read and witnessed, a coin toss would be GREAT odds compared to reality. So what are the odds of marrying a woman and it REALLY being "happily ever after? 1 in 4? One in 10? WORSE?
It's illegal to bet $10 on a basketball bracket. Yet we ENCOURAGE young people to go all-in on their lives against almost insurmountable odds ALL THE TIME. Every time I read yet ANOTHER post of a man who is SHOCKED to learn his wife has checked out, I just shake my head. That's like being "shocked" that the little metal ball on the roulette wheel didn't land on 26 and you lost $1,000. I can give THAT gambler great advice on not making that bet. Don't do it. But your daughter is getting married? CONGRATULATIONS! Drinks are on me.
One frat boy punk makes a single racist/sexist comment to another frat boy punk and the world mobilized to try and eliminate this scar on humanity. "WE WILL FIX THIS, damnit"!! Yet we encourage our kids, our daughters, to take a leap of faith into an arrangement that we KNOW will probably fail.
I don't get it.
Put the internet to work for you.
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