[Leica] Marriage

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

But the cool thing about having a long-term girlfriend is that the
state can't mandate that she take half of everything I own or have
earned during the time we were together.
People get together. Sometimes they stay that way for the rest of their
lives. Sometimes they break up. 
Alimony laws are arcane and often draconian in their scope. They are
irrelevant in this day and age yet they are enforced every day as the
divorces are becoming as casual as breakups with girlfriends in
college. If someone wants to be that casual about his finances and
possessions, more power to him but the dangers and pitfalls are well
known today so entering into a marriage should be the most important
business merger a person could do in their life.

Phil Forrest



On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 08:07:43 -0700
"Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I took a class once in statistics.......  how to "spin" statistics
> into facts.  One of the classes was titled.. "Lying through
> Statistics"...
> 
> I have read that 50% of first time marriages end in divorce, and 75%
> of second time marriages end in divorce.  Those are the statistics.
> Real Facts.
> 
> 0% of non-marriage, living together couples end in divorce.  An
> absolute statistic.  A Fact.
> 
> Therefore, it is true,  that to ensure you are never divorced, do not
> get married, live together.  
> 
> Frank Filippone, working towards 43 years of marriage.  Same Woman.
> Not divorced. 
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> is absolutely no reasons for a man to get married.  None!  Why
> register your personal life with the state?  Roughly 50% of marriages
> end in divorce and 70% of divorces are initiated by women.  Need I
> say more?
> 
> 
> 
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