EXACTLY what I want! Glad other people get it!

"Marriage is a gamble. Not marrying is a gamble. Life is a gamble." This. So much this. Getting married, staying single, getting divorced, etc. will not in and of itself do anything for you. It will not magically solve your problems, bring you happiness, give you stability, etc. YOU bring that. YOU get that for…

But they tell them what they want to hear, unlike the lamestream media who is full of liberal jerks seeking to manipulate you and take all your money. Totally different.

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thank you! I'm so tired of the explaining. I'm actually engaged without an engagement ring - this confounds some people. I've been charged as not really being engaged simply because I don't have a ring.

And i support you in your life choice. However as a person who is active in my community, has a public face, and has a close family, making that public declaration is important to me. So people know that my fiance and I come as a unit. but the key difference to me, is I'm doing it because it is important to my fiance…

I've been balancing it by delegating a lot to the women in my family who seem to care far more than I do. Also by keeping the "hey I can always go elope" card in my back pocket, gives my veto power of a lot of traditions more weight because they're all so happy that I even agreed to have a wedding. For example I'm…

Absolutely 100% agree. On the other hand, I don't want my relationship to continue to be a social experiment. I find marriage to be a wonderful institution FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE IT. I absolutely reject that people HAVE to buy into it or that those of us who don't should be shamed. If I truly had a problem with…

"seriously my dream wedding is city hall and a meal at a high end restaurant with immediate family" - i completely get this. I'm engaged and am going to have the big wedding b/c I have a huge family and it's important to them. If it were up to me, I would wrap this up in an afternoon lol

There are social and tax benefits to being married - simple fact in America.

The north absolutely has a racist past and continues to engage routinely in racist practices. The south is an easy target because it is, and with no exception that I can think of, more egregious in the south. Northern states may have had sundown laws on the books until the 1980s, but as of 2012 Alabama still had…

This is like my friend's bachelorette party - we had a murder mystery dinner and then went out to 80s night at the local club. It was awesome.

I don't know about your family, but as someone from a large family that routinely has drama based on small situations like these being blown out of proportion, I have a thought. If your family would really get super judgy about this, then honestly...they'll find something else to be judgy about. Meaning that even if…

I love this. Not this situation, because as the article title states, it sucks. But this perspective! I know many of these men; men who want to be in their kids lives or even want to be the main caretaker. While we absolutely need to stop pigeonholing women into motherhood and softer career choices (because we assume…

A Korean spa in the US city of LA. Unless they close their doors to anyone who is not Korean and who does not strictly adhere to Korean culture, it's poor business practice to make these kinds of policies and not advertise them. Furthermore, if they do treat men dramatically differently, like having different tattoo…