Why would a man get married in 2023?

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

[Anonymous]

Since being divorced, it has been way to easy to have regular sex with multiple women to consider marriage again until I am older.

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Anonymous wrote:way worse deal for women and I am married to a man who does a lot, including all the grocery shopping and cooking every night. But women are always stuck with the unquantifiable chores and lift of all the mental drain of parenting. Christmas is about to break me, every single gift purchased and wrapped by me, the xmas card, all the other things like teacher gifts, extended family coordination. I work too. He has no idea he has a persnal assistant, event planner and joy creater living with him and the kids

I’m a woman in the same boat, but I recognize that most men do not care about anything but the basics! They don’t value Christmas decorations, wrapped gifts, cards, matching pajamas, etc. etc. And they kind of have a point. We as women often go overboard, stress ourselves out, and get resentful we’re taken for granted when in reality both husband and kids would be very happy with more paired down celebratory periods and family/friend focused quality time.

I remember as a kid growing up just wishing my mom would pay attention to me when she was so focused decorating the house to the 9’s.

I am a woman. I don’t care about that stuff. I don’t decorate.

I’m a woman. I do minimal decoration at the major holidays only because I have children. Once they graduate HS, I don’t know if I will ever do it again.

As for regular decorating: we live in a small apartment. Our belongings need to be functional. I try to find functional items that aren’t actively ugly. But there’s no design term that would describe what our home looks like. Pinterest doesn’t live here. We do.

Ok that’s great. If you are similarly low maintenance in other areas of your life you probably have fewer resentments about your husband. Unless you picked really, really badly.

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

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Anonymous wrote:People from good families enjoy being married to each other.

Agree!

Agree. I suspect most of the "down on marriage" posters come from broken homes.

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

It might be true that you are the one who does most of the work around your house. But this thread is not about you. It's about generalizing, and generally, married women work slightly less than men on average.

And the idea that you'd discredit a self-reported study by a highly-respected social research organization in favor of your own biased and limited experience says everything we need to know about what you contribute to this conversation.

Lastly, your point about "seeing what goes on at home" is exactly why neutral studies are needed. If women do more work at home, then of course they think they work more overall because they don't see the greater amount of work going on outside of the home. Having you considered your own bias?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

It might be true that you are the one who does most of the work around your house. But this thread is not about you. It's about generalizing, and generally, married women work slightly less than men on average.

And the idea that you'd discredit a self-reported study by a highly-respected social research organization in favor of your own biased and limited experience says everything we need to know about what you contribute to this conversation.

Lastly, your point about "seeing what goes on at home" is exactly why neutral studies are needed. If women do more work at home, then of course they think they work more overall because they don't see the greater amount of work going on outside of the home. Having you considered your own bias?

lol

I know the Pew biases quite well, so does everyone, gracias.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

It might be true that you are the one who does most of the work around your house. But this thread is not about you. It's about generalizing, and generally, married women work slightly less than men on average.

And the idea that you'd discredit a self-reported study by a highly-respected social research organization in favor of your own biased and limited experience says everything we need to know about what you contribute to this conversation.

Lastly, your point about "seeing what goes on at home" is exactly why neutral studies are needed. If women do more work at home, then of course they think they work more overall because they don't see the greater amount of work going on outside of the home. Having you considered your own bias?

Self reported studies are junk data.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

It might be true that you are the one who does most of the work around your house. But this thread is not about you. It's about generalizing, and generally, married women work slightly less than men on average.

And the idea that you'd discredit a self-reported study by a highly-respected social research organization in favor of your own biased and limited experience says everything we need to know about what you contribute to this conversation.

Lastly, your point about "seeing what goes on at home" is exactly why neutral studies are needed. If women do more work at home, then of course they think they work more overall because they don't see the greater amount of work going on outside of the home. Having you considered your own bias?

lol

I know the Pew biases quite well, so does everyone, gracias.

Yes, I'm sure your individual experience is much more representative. I can see that you are a very reasonable person, and I am sure your domestic disagreements about work are very level headed.

[Anonymous]

I never got a survey! Would love to fill out one, or a few!

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

Correct, everyone in our house sees who’s doing what 24/7. Unless you’re the clueless work addict who also sleeps 8pm to 5am.
So I don’t care what a self reported study reports. I can also see how an ignorant person who only knows 10% or the pie thinks they’re killing it with their 1-3 tasks a day they half @$$.

It might be true that you are the one who does most of the work around your house. But this thread is not about you. It's about generalizing, and generally, married women work slightly less than men on average.

And the idea that you'd discredit a self-reported study by a highly-respected social research organization in favor of your own biased and limited experience says everything we need to know about what you contribute to this conversation.

Lastly, your point about "seeing what goes on at home" is exactly why neutral studies are needed. If women do more work at home, then of course they think they work more overall because they don't see the greater amount of work going on outside of the home. Having you considered your own bias?

Self reported studies are junk data.

That's an absurd statement. This study was very broad, and you'd have to identify some systematic bias in some direction to undermine the validity of the study.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

I think there is an implicit bias toward paid work. If you are at work, it gets counted as work no matter what you are doing. But time at home gets broken down in all of these little pieces.
How can a couple with children only be spending an average of 20 hours a week on childcare? There are 168 hours in a week. Even if they are in school and sports, that’s still a lot of hours.

So you say that when they are sleeping, it isn’t childcare. But if you hired someone, you would pay them for that time. On the other hand, I’m an intensivist…and if the ICU is quiet in the middle of the night, and I’m in my office sleeping, it still counts as paid work.

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Anonymous wrote:As a happily married man I will not encourage any man to be married. Just because I am happily married does not mean I am
Getting a * good deal* like women claim. They always bring up the same set of things that they do us. Here is the deal it’s just not true. Yes our mothers offered all those perks to our dads. Our wives are not. And I am glad they are not because we should be contributing equally to everything. But women today (and in a way I feel bad) are under immense pressure from society (or maybe feminists ) to seek their own happiness (which is good) and men as a result are under a microscope.

I did everything on that list every week except meals and those we ordered from a company. I also taught the kids and earned half the money. I don't understand what men want women to be these days. Women are doing most of the working in the US now and the childrearing. What exactly do men bring to the table comparatively if and I repeat if they aren't making more than the median income? The median income is about $150k around here I believe. What does a guy making say $100k bring to a marriage compared to a woman making the same?

This actually isn't true. Reputable studies show that in married couples, men do more work overall when taking into account work outside and inside the home. Look up the Pew studies on working. Women work more hours on average in the home, which is why it seems to women that they do more work--because they don't see the greater amount of work being done by men outside of the house. Of course, this is just averages, and I'm sure we'll get lots of anecdotal responses here from women who swear they do so much more than their husbands.

Post the study. Love to know the breakdown of office work, housework, kid work, personal time, sleep, sitting on a plane, eating.

I know what it’s in our two income hosuehold.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Your response is the anecdotal stuff I mentioned. I’m sure you perceive yourself as working more overall. Whether that’s true in your case is beside the point.

I think there is an implicit bias toward paid work. If you are at work, it gets counted as work no matter what you are doing. But time at home gets broken down in all of these little pieces.
How can a couple with children only be spending an average of 20 hours a week on childcare? There are 168 hours in a week. Even if they are in school and sports, that’s still a lot of hours.

So you say that when they are sleeping, it isn’t childcare. But if you hired someone, you would pay them for that time. On the other hand, I’m an intensivist…and if the ICU is quiet in the middle of the night, and I’m in my office sleeping, it still counts as paid work.

So you think the parents should count as childcare the hours the children are sleeping, even if the parents spend those hours watching Netflix or sleeping? Putting aside the absurdity of that position, that wouldn't skew the overall results because both parents could count those hours.

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Anonymous wrote:way worse deal for women and I am married to a man who does a lot, including all the grocery shopping and cooking every night. But women are always stuck with the unquantifiable chores and lift of all the mental drain of parenting. Christmas is about to break me, every single gift purchased and wrapped by me, the xmas card, all the other things like teacher gifts, extended family coordination. I work too. He has no idea he has a persnal assistant, event planner and joy creater living with him and the kids

I’m a woman in the same boat, but I recognize that most men do not care about anything but the basics! They don’t value Christmas decorations, wrapped gifts, cards, matching pajamas, etc. etc. And they kind of have a point. We as women often go overboard, stress ourselves out, and get resentful we’re taken for granted when in reality both husband and kids would be very happy with more paired down celebratory periods and family/friend focused quality time.

I remember as a kid growing up just wishing my mom would pay attention to me when she was so focused decorating the house to the 9’s.

I am a woman. I don’t care about that stuff. I don’t decorate.

I’m a woman. I do minimal decoration at the major holidays only because I have children. Once they graduate HS, I don’t know if I will ever do it again.

As for regular decorating: we live in a small apartment. Our belongings need to be functional. I try to find functional items that aren’t actively ugly. But there’s no design term that would describe what our home looks like. Pinterest doesn’t live here. We do.

Ok that’s great. If you are similarly low maintenance in other areas of your life you probably have fewer resentments about your husband. Unless you picked really, really badly.

I don’t have resentments toward him because he’s a responsive partner and keeps his word. Not because I’m low maintenance. I have several serious health issues so I’m very high maintenance when it comes to diet, sleep hygiene, and self-care. I don’t even think I’m low maintenance about decor, just practical about how we can live in a small space without drowning in objects.