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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Men benefit from marriage in other ways besides sex.
Children, family, stability, cooking/cleaning, social life, etc. There is another man on here who stayed in a sexless marriage all the while planning divorce as soon as the children went to college. He also wanted the benefits without providing any...[/quote]

What a load of garbage. You invented "benefits" that men don't actually care about (and certainly don't get married to obtain) in order to feed your fantasy that men get more out of marriage than women, and that it's ok to deny men sex (what they do want) because they still get this other stuff (that they don't care about).[/quote]

Nope, not a load of garbage.  The point is that it isn't about sexlessness.  It's about men wanting something new after they have "accomplished" life things such as raising kids, building career and wealth.  Their wives could compromise but these husbands want what they want, no compromise is good because in their mind they have options.  It's really pretty clear. [/quote]

Are you a husband? How do you feel comfortable making these absolute proclamation about what men want or think? The only thing that is really pretty clear is you do not know what you are talking about. [/quote]

DP but statistics are clear. Married men live longer than unmarried men and men are more likely to remarry after a divorce than women. This is across the board not just for the guys getting booty on the regular.

I don't think anyone knows exactly why this is but I believe it is because women have elaborate and meaningful emotional relationships with many people in their life and so can seek emotional support from other avenues. Many men primarily get that emotional support from a spouse and without it get lonely and depressed. In a marriage that woman feels the weight of being that for her husband and when she's on her own she can live more just for herself. It is a sad side effect of society's expectation that men keep their emotions under control that mostly impacts men. [/quote]

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