Quote Originally Posted by Emperor Penguin View Post
Guys, let's keep it simple here. If you marry and stay married for fifty years, good for you. If you marry and then divorce, be a man and accept the financial consequences. Let us not draw conclusions from anecdotes, but at the same time we should not be so overly idealistic to the idea of marriage.

There is one undeniable fact about this whole marriage issue: it's a crapshoot.
Marriage is not a crap shoot. Craps is a crap shoot. But you are right about keeping it simple. The simple facts in this matter for both men and women are the same. You can choose someone based on a lot of different things, e.g. money, looks, their ability to make your eyes roll into the back of your head. But whatever the other criteria, I think three of those things must include someone from a healthy family background, good character and similar value systems to your own. That ensures the longevity of anyone's marriage.

People don't just get married and then divorce because the sky is blue. They divorce for reasons that could be seen well before the marriage but they refused to want to see it, thinking they were going to change or you were going to change them. If you take a chance on choosing someone based on ANY other criteria than these three simple tenets, your marriage is doomed to failure.