Just something that leaves me scratching my head.

Hmm maybe you should see a doctor about that head scratching..

at least he's not scratching his balls.

to take 1/2 your stuff

Women get married for the same reason dogs mark the ground-they're territorial creatures, these women-folk.

A woman wants to be claimed, generally speaking. She wants a man to claim her publicly. Letting everyone know that she is his, he wants her exclusively. A wedding validates her with his friends, family and friends.

You can do things that help her feel the same thing by holding her hand in public or placing your arm around her in public. Walking street side when you are walking down the street. Etc... Stuff like that.

I have read that when a man truly loves a woman he will proclaim, protect and provide. He will proclaim her as his to whoever will listen, he will protect her from anything he sees as a threat to her and he will want to provide for her.

But hey there's still the matter of him scratching his HEAD..

Because they know they can't control every man in the world so they just settle for just one.. (JK I Think)

In America, marriage is designed to favor only women in case of divorce. Women get 50% of what they may never had built/achieved. Thats crazy
On the other hand, women want companionship and love, thats another reason they want to get married
Guys just want to **** and go...tooo bad

You do realize that men can get maintenance too if the woman supported him in the relationship to a certain lifestyle. Men can get child support if he takes the children and if she built everything up during the marriage he is going to get half of what she built too.

The only reason it seems unfair is most of the cases we see the man earned more than the woman did.

You got to be kidding me. 99 out of a 100 I have met do not want to marry and the 1 is 6000 miles away.

Marriage is a dying beast in this country. Compare the numbers to even 20 years ago....unless we have a consevative religious coup it will soon be the minority of the population that either is or seeks to become married.

I never have and never will. More and more of my friends and all of my family now see it my way. The only thing marriage really accomplishes is to allow a stupidly high increase of taxation on the secondary income to the point that it is cheaper to quit the job and be your own childcare service.

Tru dat

Marriage is a cultural thing that women are taught from day one is the sole purpose of their lives.

If you're a Christian, you would understand it.

Wow this is interesting.. Sooooooooo only women push marriage? Out of all the offers I've recieved there is only one I told I wanted to marry him... I think you'll find that most women don't need, some don't want to get married unless they've never been there done that and a lot of men want to get married just as much as that number of women..

I do agree that this has happened in the past generations. My generation seems to have rebelled against it a bit more than before.

The taught male and female roles has taken a hit in recent years.

They have taken a hit but they have not died.

not really, marriage usually dictates a man work(which is what he has to do anyway to survive),, whereas a woman generally must work AND a whole list of other things ,,,,(housecleaning, cooking, caretaking) and their job is usually 24 hour where they dont get to 'clock out' and go hang out with their friends or whatever else they feel. The money they didnt 'earn' from some employer they certainly did 'work for' in their homes.

Silly me always thought two people who wanted to spend the rest of their lives together decided jointly to marry. People marry for many reasons, companionship, procreation, tax purposes.

I am simply going to answer the OPs question now. If a woman wants to marry, I am assuming she's in love and if a man asks her, I am assuming he needs someone to cook for him.

Marriage is , for me, a lifelong friendship and romance which is sanctioned by and includes God.


I want to have that lifelong friendship and have God be a part of it...(but thats just me)