What positives do men get from marriage?

[El Payaso]

Anything at all?

 

[BrainDamage92]

You get someone who loves you to share your life with and grow old with... lel jk none ofc

 

[corrector]

You realize that being "single" and not being married is really great because you'll understand what most single people have in abundance: "freedom". You may not understand this if you are not married before. You don't appreciate what you have until it's gone.

 

[Alexandar]

you gain two heads instead of one.

 

[GS750]

From what I've heard it's good for a few years. Then it's all downhill after that.

Half Eddie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-lqz-Fp0r4&list=LLwkd16emUWCbe49OnslGhIA&index=16

 

[62Telecaster]

...marriage is a bit of an oddball concept in today's society. You have to look at it as something a bit outdated and out of touch with Gen-Y and the upcoming "Homelander" generation. Social media, sexual growth and acceptance, and the overall Gen-Y trend to marry later and focus more on career paths and other life goals has really cause a bit of a divergence from the typical Baby Boomer view of "The American Dream"...more or less the whole "happiness and success is working a 9-5/having a wife/2.5 kids/living in the suburbs/etc" type of thing.

There's just simply too many social opportunities and pathways for today's 20-30 somethings to explore...people have different interests, goals, and ways of achieving happiness today for the whole "getting married is for everyone" mindset to still be valid. Social change and evolution as a society explains the skyrocketing divorce rates...marriage and being with one person just doesn't work as it once did, it's a lot more complicated now and people are less motivated to work through problems or disagreements. Meeting other people is very easy and we're more connected as a society than ever before...

So more or less...unless you're a small town type of person, need a wife for reassurance or status, want kids or a family for sure, or have legitimately found somebody who's you're other half...you sort of don't really gain anything from an opportunity/freedom perspective. I can't see marriage as a good idea unless you're with somebody that you've know you're entire life, found somebody 100% legitimate that you can't be without(this is my grandparents), or need each other as a sort of business arrangement to help achieve what you both want and need(terrible idea...this is my parents).

However...it's not easy finding like-minded people to continue running the single life with, many guys will try marriage just as part of a quarterlife crisis and end up miserable or broken as it fails; I know way, way, way too many guys like this. Life is what you make it...happiness is a choice and a concept to be learned; you'll never learn how to enjoy life if you walk into bad decisions knowingly.

...you just have to be careful and really understand what you're doing.

 

[Desdinova]

Having friends and family quit nagging you about getting married.

The social pressure to get married is still very abundant in a society where marriage is an outdated arrangement due to the lack of gender roles and identities.

 

[Drummer93]

Marriage is basically a piece a paper and a claim to spend the rest of your life with your best friend. It's nothing really special.

See the only way I would get in a relationship is if the girl is my best friend. When I say best friend that means she is not following what other couples are doing and most importantly think she is entitled to certain things just because I am committed to her. My favorite is when women thinks that relationships has rules.. ha! nope.

 

[logicallefty]

This is me waiting to figure out the answer to the OP's question:

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A man's marriage vows: "...until death do us part"

A woman's marriage vows: "...until death do us part or I find another man that I like better because he is better looking and/or gives me more stuff"

 

[prison/con.net]

if you marry a foreign MD, engineer, dentist etc, it can mean 100k cash in your pocket, untaxed, (spread over 3 years) at a critical time in your life. If you know what to do with that extra cash, it can retire you, but I'd also use my school loans to pay for my expenses and make sure that I had some other way to make good money. The 35k per year from her, is best used in conjunction with VA home loans to set you up with big old houses, which you convert into weekly rental rooms. There's 15k per yer clear for you in each, even when you no longer run them or live there, and you can get into each one for 15k or so. So the money quickly "snowballs" into something really nice

Just understand, tho, that you'll need a vasectomy and a woman with no kids. Don't adopt any, and figure on a divorce in less than 5 years. Especially if she's a lot younger than you. The properties, ASAP, have to be owned by a nevada corporation and she can't know about them. You probalby can't hide the first one from her, but the others, you can.

 

[LiveFreeX]

Kids, Citizenship, Money, Family, Healthcare.

My friend went from a pizza hut employee to a double digit millionaire by marrying the right girl. The positives vastly outweigh the negatives. Anyone who argues differently might as well call themselves a feminist and get in line behind the cat ladies for a life of singledom because they are following the exact same path.

MGTOW = Male Feminism.

Picking up women, banging random girls... gets boring after awhile. You guys can go on and on about the evil's of marriage but its up to the individual to make things work. You can have all the game in the world but knowing how to pick a quality woman means the difference between a good life and a terrible one, married or not. Not all women are the same and any man who thinks otherwise is a complete idiot.

if you marry a foreign MD, engineer, dentist etc, it can mean 100k cash in your pocket

If you are gonna deal with all the university/career woman fallout you might aswell just marry a REALLY rich broad from the get go. 100k won't last you forever man. Do yourself a favor, marry a doctor with REALLY rich parents.

 

[prison/con.net]

these mutts here have no chance of that, and personally, if she's a US dr, she's going to be just like the other US cvnts. obviously you have no idea how to invest properly. the first 20k can get a nice old house rented out, inflow of 100k cash per year. clear 50k or so. Now buy more, the next year 3 more. Once you've got 5-6, the income is enough to let you hire a property management firm to watch over your (live in, Vets) who are managing your houses. Then you're free to go wherever and do whatever you want.

 

[guru1000]

... obviously you have no idea how to invest properly. the first 20k can get a nice old house rented out, inflow of 100k cash per year. clear 50k or so.

Show me what area you can invest 20k to net 50k per year, and I will have investors give you a sizable finders fee.

 

[PeasantPlayer]

Kids, Citizenship, Money, Family, Healthcare.

My friend went from a pizza hut employee to a double digit millionaire by marrying the right girl. The positives vastly outweigh the negatives. Anyone who argues differently might as well call themselves a feminist and get in line behind the cat ladies for a life of singledom because they are following the exact same path.

MGTOW = Male Feminism.

Picking up women, banging random girls... gets boring after awhile. You guys can go on and on about the evil's of marriage but its up to the individual to make things work. You can have all the game in the world but knowing how to pick a quality woman means the difference between a good life and a terrible one, married or not. Not all women are the same and any man who thinks otherwise is a complete idiot.
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if you marry a foreign MD, engineer, dentist etc, it can mean 100k cash in your pocket

If you are gonna deal with all the university/career woman fallout you might aswell just marry a REALLY rich broad from the get go. 100k won't last you forever man. Do yourself a favor, marry a doctor with REALLY rich parents.

Really and how did he managed to become a double digit millionaire? Marriage is not for everybody. Kids will drain you time and money ( I do want kids, but no marriage) What's the difference between marriage and just being with someone you enjoy being with and having a family? People act like marriage papers act like some sort of shield or force field. Meeting women and banging does get boring, but so does marriage.

No marriage equals freedom to do what you want if you make decisions not based in fear. And stop relating everything to MGTOW, if a man doesn't want to get married doesn't mean he is "MGTOW" your showing your lazy intellect grouping everything to "MGTOW"

 

[Suspens]

Producing healthy and successful off-springs is the primary goal of any sane man.