Why do you think that we guys don't have that much trouble with doing that but the women cannot?("getting it out the system" )
women deal with emotion guys with logic
Why do you think that we guys don't have that much trouble with doing that but the women cannot?("getting it out the system" )
Why do you think that we guys don't have that much trouble with doing that but the women cannot?("getting it out the system" )


Why do you think that we guys don't have that much trouble with doing that but the women cannot?("getting it out the system" )
Not long ago, after giving a talk about the growing number of women who are breadwinners in their marriages, I was approached by an audience member who identified herself as a lawyer. She said that she was definitely seeing this trend in her practice — nearly 40% of working wives now outearn their husbands — and that while economic power is a good thing, overall, for women, it can have one negative outcome many don’t anticipate. Among her divorce clients, she said, more and more were women who found themselves ordered by a court to pay spousal support to ex-husbands. ”And boy,” she said, “are they pissed.”
(MORE: The End of Alimony: How American Divorces Are Changing)
That these women are angry is to be expected: men don’t like paying alimony either, and writing a check every month has long been, for men, one of the prime impediments to postmarital bliss. But their reaction also suggests that women, while eager to benefit from progress and expanded opportunities, are not so willing to accept the more painful consequences of our success. What’s sauce for the gander is, alas, sauce for the goose. It may or may not make it easier on these check-writing ex-wives to know that they are part of a larger movement: the degendering of alimony and divorce, which is a natural outgrowth of the degendering of roles in marriage.
Once upon a time, the point of alimony was clear: it recognized the essential deal underlying marriage back in the days of “separate spheres,” when it was a husband’s role to provide, and a wife’s role to stay home, raise the children, run the household and enable the husband to be hard-working and high-earning. The economist Gary Becker famously argued that this was how couples maximized their efficiency: dividing the labor enabled both to succeed in their respective spheres. When marriages fell apart, alimony provided legal and economic recognition of the fact that a wife had sacrificed her earning power to maximize that of her husband and enhance the welfare of their family.
(MORE: Women, Money and Power: How Women’s Wealth Is Changing Society)
Now that the separate-spheres marriage has been replaced, in many cases, by the dual-earner version, there is a move to abolish permanent alimony altogether. As this TIME story documents, in some states the crusade is being supported by second wives, many of them working women, appalled that their earnings (in some cases) are going to pay the alimony of first wives who stayed at home to raise children. The animosity between those two groups is in some ways one more iteration of the mommy wars — the lingering gulf that exists between women who work outside the home and women who work within it. But it’s also a sign that the bargain of marriage has changed and splintered; there can be any number of deals now, including deals where the mom stays home; deals where both spouses work; and increasingly, deals where the woman is the primary earner. The ranks of stay-at-home dads are small, but they have doubled in the past decade. And in dual-earner marriages, there are more and more where it’s the wife whose career takes center stage and the man’s that becomes supplementary.
(MORE: TIME’s Exclusive Excerpt of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In)
As a result, it’s not only women who are wrestling with new emotions: after publishing a book on female breadwinners, I also heard from a bank administrator who quit his job after his first child was born, enabling his wife to more fully pursue a lucrative career as a lawyer. He said that he loved and trusted his wife, but sacrificing his career and paycheck did make him feel “rather vulnerable.” Just as women may find themselves angry, men may find themselves uneasy, as both sexes get used to the fact that some of the old patterns will persist, shorn of gender, and so will some of the old obligations.
Read more: Liza Mundy: In De-Gendering of Divorce, Women Pay Ex-Husbands Alimony | TIME.com
and still pining for a date with her. She kept rejecting him sayin "NEVER it wont happen" etc....Whats sad is there are dudes like this out here.I'm pretty much to the point where I really don't care about dealing with these women. That's why I've really been shifting over to other subjects like just really focusing on stepping your own life up for it's own sake. No matter what angle you come from, as a man, you will get the blame.
You're out here working real hard and doing your best to provide her a future and she cheats on you, but it's your fault because you were 'not there enough' and neglected her for your career or you weren't exciting enough for her and she had to get her 'emotional needs fulfilled.'
You don't work enough in her mind and you are a little boy who deserved her cheating on you because you didn't man up and handle the responsibilities as a man or she will just leave you for someone who makes significantly more because that guy's a 'real man.'
You marry your high school or college sweetheart and she cheats and it's your fault because you have bad judgment and you should have let her slut it up first during her best looking years so she can 'know what she wants.'
You marry a 30 year old that's slept with everybody on the block and now 'knows what she wants' and still cheats on you and you get the blame because you knew how she was before you met her.
You are expected to do all the traditional things as a man, but the only traditional things a woman will accept are the benefits of traditionalism. Nah, doesn't work like that.
I was watching Family Matters and noticed how Steve simped Laura bad for all those years.I remember one particular episode where Laura was about to go on a date with Ted,some Derek Jeter lookin cat.Anyways Steve was glueing Laura's earrings together for herand still pining for a date with her. She kept rejecting him sayin "NEVER it wont happen" etc....Whats sad is there are dudes like this out here.
Man some great discussions going on, I love coming back here after a day or two and catching up on the comments.
I'm pretty much to the point where I really don't care about dealing with these women. That's why I've really been shifting over to other subjects like just really focusing on stepping your own life up for it's own sake. No matter what angle you come from, as a man, you will get the blame.
You're out here working real hard and doing your best to provide her a future and she cheats on you, but it's your fault because you were 'not there enough' and neglected her for your career or you weren't exciting enough for her and she had to get her 'emotional needs fulfilled.'
You don't work enough in her mind and you are a little boy who deserved her cheating on you because you didn't man up and handle the responsibilities as a man or she will just leave you for someone who makes significantly more because that guy's a 'real man.'
You marry your high school or college sweetheart and she cheats and it's your fault because you have bad judgment and you should have let her slut it up first during her best looking years so she can 'know what she wants.'
You marry a 30 year old that's slept with everybody on the block and now 'knows what she wants' and still cheats on you and you get the blame because you knew how she was before you met her.
You are expected to do all the traditional things as a man, but the only traditional things a woman will accept are the benefits of traditionalism. Nah, doesn't work like that.


this chick I was conversing with just sent me this:
so he was everything you asked for and more and shyt still wasn't good enough?
women can end shyt at the drop of a dime when they are bored. There is literally nothing you can do. This is why so many men are miserable in marriages. Sacrificing their happiness for the sake of their partners happiness and even that isn't guaranteed.
Thats like an employer firing an employee,only to bring back that employee for the same position.