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Category Archives: Marriage
An Orthodox View Of Love
Jewish Standard: Both Ms. Brown’s books are written in a child’s voice — a smart, self-aware, limit-testing, often obnoxious little girl, self-centered as happy children often are, secure in her parents’ love and her place in the world. “Hush,” published … Continue reading
When Players Marry
From Chateau Heartiste: Players with a lurid, technicolor memory plate filled with many women will find it harder to accede to the straitjacketing of an LTR because of an acute sense of something missing, of what could still be had … Continue reading
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Understanding Women
Highlights from Chateau Heartiste: * “Women basically want a monopoly on judgement. She can judge reject men as she chooses, but men are not free to reject/judge her or her choices, ever.” * “If you are the average man — … Continue reading
“Marriage, Happiness, and Voting Republican: Pick 3”
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Most single people are disgruntled and unhappy, and therefore willing to try anything to fix their profound unhappiness. And if those wild attempts fail, they will accept the consolation prize of ruining others’ happiness. Flood … Continue reading
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Civilization Requires Monogamy
LINK: Have you heard of J. D. Unwin? From wikipedia page: In Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and 6 known civilizations through 5,000 years of history and found a positive correlation between the cultural achievement of … Continue reading
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Gay Norms Are Destroying Straight Marriage
From Chateau Heartiste: The thing which worries me about gay marriage is that the norms surrounding gay long-term relationships will be imported into the concept of marriage. (The above is a media write-up of a study that found that in … Continue reading
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Marriage, Illegitimacy & Politics
Comment to Steve Sailer: For a somewhat more enlightening analysis of how marriage and illegitimacy correlates with politics, see this USA Today article from nine years. Excerpts: “House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic mother of five from San Francisco, … Continue reading
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Married Men Work Harder & Smarter
Chaim Amalek writes: This is a great article, one that should be required reading in High School: Men who are reluctant to settle down until they make more money – and women who spurn low-wage men – could benefit from … Continue reading
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The Money-Hungry Bitch
I got question from a friend: Where is the middle ground between money hungry bitch & G-dless tramp? Perhaps that’s where we choose to settle? But then again, if we so tightly feel the grips of “settling,” then how would … Continue reading
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The Lust-Free Marriage
On this video 22 minutes in, a husband says: “Lust within my marriage has been a struggle for me. It says in our literature that sex is optional. I’ve had to give up the desire to initiate sex with my … Continue reading