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[quote=Anonymous]If you are not into marriage, I'm sure there are some posts and tweets out there to confirm your bias. Just as there are tweets and posts and research papers to confirm mine.

I make 2x as much as my DH. There are other women at my agency, for we are lowly DC area government workers, who also make more than their husbands.

I married later in life, like many highly educated women, and I can say my life is better/different as a married lady than as a singleton. For one, I'm not looking at every single unmarried man like a prize that I need to try to capture. I am soooooo thankful not to have to date or try to date anymore. Men are idiots. I have my idiot, I don't have to really deal with the rest of them. Actually I have 2 idiots because we have a DS.

Marriage is better because many hands make light work, and we are working together as a team. We share a house we own. I know that our son would be another statistic if his father was not helping me raise DS, bc that kid is two handfuls. Our retirement plans are meshed. Working together we have 0 debt. No credit cards. No HELOCS No car loans. Soon, no mortgage.

I dabble in history, and marriage has improved women's lives for various reasons.  For upper class women it has provided connections, sometimes titles, and entry into female social circles closed to spinsters. For various classes it provided children and in-house support for those children who would as adults support the women in their old age. For women in business, the Mrs. provided respectability to clarify what was being sold. If they could get away with it, even single women would add Mrs. to their names, claiming to be widows.[/quote]

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