Lets get married!!! Lets wait.

[SagGal]

OK, since I heard some of your responses. I think it takes about 2-3 years or so to really get to know a person and decide on whether you can see yourself being married to them for the rest of your life. However, it doesn't mean after a couple of years of dating and feeling that way, I would still get married though. Still being single for a while is always nice and well......yea.
This still puzzles me though. She's 18. She hasn't even dated that many guys yet. I don't know. Just a little weird, but I wish her well.

HOw old is the guy?

My friend's fiance? I actually don't know how old he is. Never met him, but saw his pic. I'd say about 20 or 21, maybe.

No. I type everything the way I do because *peering over to make sure that grandma's paying attention* my parents have raised me appropriately, and I am a well-mannered child who will grow up to become either a doctor or a lawyer, and will have a beautiful wife and three beautiful children.

Aaaaw. You have grown.

[hyebruin]

This thread makes me sad that I am not married. I want to be married hastily like the people in SagGals example.

this is such a funny post....ahh...my sides hurt so much from laffin...ayayayayyy...the look, the tears..it's too much!!

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

SagGal remember this, the shortest time to know someone is 6 months and longest 3 between this time of period amen inch parz ke lini for two ppl.

[hyebruin]

Male Marital Outlook Linked to Upbringing

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By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

NEW YORK - While most single young men aspire to marriage, about one-fifth are deeply skeptical of the institution and their prospects of making it work, according to a new national survey which closely links men's marital outlook to their upbringing.



The survey, released Wednesday by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, found that the men with negative attitudes were far more likely than the rest to have been raised by a divorced parent in a non-churchgoing family.


"Most young men are still 'the marrying kind,'" said a report accompanying the survey. "Moreover, the men who are the best 'marriage bets' are those who are more traditional in their family and religious background."


One critic said such assertions were too broad, fostering illusions about traditional families and overlooking the nuanced attitudes of those raised by divorced parents.


Of the 1,010 men aged 25-34 who were surveyed, 569 were married. Of that group, 81 percent said they got married "because it was the right time to settle down." The desire to have children was a major factor for 35 percent; only 15 percent said they married sooner than they wished because of pressure from their partner.


The survey was part of the annual "State of Our Unions" report authored by Marriage Project co-directors David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.


Their report avoided making specific recommendations, but Popenoe, in a telephone interview, counseled women seeking husbands to "take into consideration the guy's background — don't avoid the traditional guys."


"A huge percentage of the men say they'll marry when it's time to settle down, which a lot of women don't quite understand," Popenoe said. "A word of advice to women — make sure you're getting the guy at just this time."


Survey responses from the married men painted a positive picture of marriage — 94 percent said they were happier married than single, and 73 percent said their sex life was better.


"For men, even more than for women, marriage is a transformative event," Popenoe and Whitehead wrote. "They work harder and do better financially than men who are not married. They are less likely to hang out in bars, to abuse alcohol or drugs."


According to the survey, married men are roughly twice as likely as unmarried men to go religious services regularly. Three-quarters of the married men said it was important for children to be raised in a religion, compared to 59 percent of unmarried men.


Regarding parenting, married and single men had similar views — about two-thirds of each group said having children shouldn't be the main purpose of marrying.


Among the single men, those interested in marriage were more likely to have had a father fully involved in their upbringing than those who were skeptical of marriage. The unmarried men raised by two parents also were more likely to be trusting of women than those raised in single-parent homes.


Stephanie Coontz, a history professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and author of several books on families, questioned the utility of such findings.


"There's this endless stream of correlations that seem designed to convince people, 'By golly, we'd all do better if everybody got married and stayed married,'" she said. "That's unrealistic in the modern world."


She said researchers should conduct more detailed surveys, for example, comparing the outlooks of men whose parents divorced amicably with men whose parents endured in an unhappy marriage.


Of the unmarried men who were surveyed, 53 percent said they were not interested in getting married anytime soon. Most agreed that "at this stage in my life I want fun and freedom"; 47 percent said they wouldn't marry until they could afford to own a home.





Twenty-two percent of the unmarried men were depicted as "hardcore marriage avoiders" — agreeing that marriage, while suitable for some people, is unappealing to them.

Compared to other unmarried men, this subgroup was far more likely to mistrust women's accounts of their past relationships and to worry that marriage would end in divorce.

"It is the presence of these men in the partner market that has led to the popular media stereotype of the commitment-phobic young male on the make but not on the path to marriage," Popenoe and Whitehead wrote.

The report noted that American men are delaying marriage — on average, marrying for the first time at 27, compared to 23 in 1970.

"Young men face few, if any, negative consequences to delaying marriage," the report said. "They can live with a young woman and gain some of the sexual and domestic benefits of marriage without the long-term commitment of marriage."

The survey was conducted in January and February among English-speaking, heterosexual men. The margin of error for the full sample was 4 percent.

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[PASAMONSTER]

children rushing into what they don't understand.

mariage is not a joke.

[hyebruin]

haha, THIS IS ONLY A JOKE!!! (so if you're lackin the humor gene, just move on!)

ok, here it goes:

what's the quickest way to the altar?
a pregnant girl!

~~what's sad about that statement is that there is a lot of truth in it~~ ehhh...dumba$$ girls for thinkin a baby will make him 'stick around' and dumba$$ guys for letting it happen in the first place!

[PASAMONSTER]

lolllll


OHHHH MAN! so who was sheeting bricks on fathers day, waiting for a knock on the door? not me .

[SagGal]

children rushing into what they don't understand.

mariage is not a joke.

You tell 'em Papamonster!!!

...dumba$$ guys for letting it happen in the first place!

Reminds me of a a funny commercial that Baron once posted. The link still works. Check it out.

http://forum.armenianclub.com/showthread.php?t=2309

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

the armenian way of getting married: Two weeks of knowing each other, third week the guy comes home meet the parents. Fourth week the xoskap. Fifth week the arangements for the engagement party, by the end of the fifth week the engagment party at Ojax. One week of staying engaged. Seventh week arangements of the wedding. 500 wedding invitations to the entire armenian community of the area. Eigth week the wedding. After the wedding the honeymoon. So the couple is together for about nine week. After honeymoon the bride has the morning sickness and plus the kesur's gestapo camp routine. after nine months the baby comes. and later on b/c the bride couldn't take no more the kesur's pressure, she wants to live seperately and the fights begin. In near future the filing for divorce papers begins...and etc etc u know the rest.

[sSsflamesSs]

the armenian way of getting married: Two weeks of knowing each other, third week the guy comes home meet the parents. Fourth week the xoskap. Fifth week the arangements for the engagement party, by the end of the fifth week the engagment party at Ojax. One week of staying engaged. Seventh week arangements of the wedding. 500 wedding invitations to the entire armenian community of the area. Eigth week the wedding. After the wedding the honeymoon. So the couple is together for about nine week. After honeymoon the bride has the morning sickness and plus the kesur's gestapo camp routine. after nine months the baby comes. and later on b/c the bride couldn't take no more the kesur's pressure, she wants to live seperately and the fights begin. In near future the filing for divorce papers begins...and etc etc u know the rest.

Damn, you didn't miss ONE detail, did you?