Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people?

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Sure, why not.

But why it has to be exactly same, he should do some other chores for her. Like buying new vac, new juicer blender and better quality cleaning solution. ;)

Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people?

PCG, Im curious about what kind of life goals? Like buying a house and kids? Or do you mean more? As in, complimenting and leveraging each others goals? I agree about the families for sure! Everyone has to be on the same page. And your right, marriage should never be a deterrent. Also understanding not everything in life goes as planned sometimes.

Re: Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people

What if your life goals involve you trying to travel the world and your wife is like "No I wanna watch starplus" then what? These are the life questions that one must answer.

Re: Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people

Simple buddy...u buy her an ipad and buy live telecast of star plus and boom ..she's happy = you are happy :p.

Re: Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people

And remember u may do all the right things but still end up divorced, we can't control everything in life.

Re: Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people

Life goals and values like:
-I want to live out my educational ambitions - i.e. I want to accomplish that masters before I die!
-I want to write the great american novel
-I want to put together that cook book
-I want to keep pursuing my quilting club
-Friends matter most, I want to be able to play cricket with my buddies without my partner nagging me
-I like to travel, I want to be with someone that will travel with me in their spare time
-I want to give my kids the most highest level of education I possibly can, which means I will be ok with supporting them financially for a long time - my spouse should be with me on that.
-I want to keep a very religious home, all women will be wearing burqas and niqabs when going out OR I am a live and let live kind of person, the kids can pray as they want, I will not force them
-My goal in life is to be the most religious person, or the most charitable person, or the most popular person around
- I want to throw lavish parties and attend all the fashion shows - my partner should be open to that lifestyle
- I value money and jewels
- I value education
- I value music, I want my kids to grow up with music lessons and I want a piano in the house

Stuff like that, which you would think doesn't matter, but that's what life is really about - and so it does matter.

You can't have someone who values music and plays a guitar paired up with someone who wears a burqa and thinks the Guitar is the Instrument of the Devil. Just wont work.

Re: Everyone keeps asking married people for advice. How about asking divorced people

In my case I realized I was too much a feminist and the person I was looking to marry was completely an anti-feminist and thought guys should have the upper hand because they're guys. At first, I waved that on, thinking oh well, academic difference, everything will be fine. But it's not.

If you think you should have the upper hand since you're a guy, you won't like your wife having her own mind telling you where the boundaries are as to what your family members can say about her family members.

I spoke my mind, I got dumped. Did not work out. Because at the end of the day, the fundamental values were just different.

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