Marriage and the Power of Divorce

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Ameraves

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As I've stated, I don't think he should suggest any solution besides individual counseling and listening until she is finished with her surrogate pregnancy.
First and foremost we are sticking to this, and there are absolutely no decisions being made. Like I said I am doing my best to just stay positive until we get to a point where the baby is here and her hormones are back to a normal level.

The problem I am personally struggling with the most is I simply wonder what is going on in her head, and how she is feeling. It is causing a ton of doubt within myself, and it is hard to not become hyper focused on it. So again, I am just doing my best to not portray that in any way.

Serious suggestion: would you be up for some arrangement whereby she can sleep with another person? If it's mostly sexual, and you can find a way to address that, the relationship may go on. If it doesn't work, well you were getting divorced anyway
Yes, this is something I had thought about. There is aboslutely no way in hell I could do it though. I couldn't stomach the thought of it, and beyond that there is no way I find that to be a healthy relationship.
 

Noodleface

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I don't believe I could let my wife sleep with another man either.

Imagine if the roles were reversed. Any dude that did that to his disabled wife would be looked at as a scumbag.
 

Soygen

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I dunno. A relationship where neither person is sexually satisfied sounds just as, if not more, unhealthy.
 

iannis

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It just depends on the people involved. Open relationships don't have to be pathetic and sad even if a lot of times they are. Closed relationships are also sometimes pathetic and sad.

IB4 master!
 

Agraza

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I don't think I could go without because my partner was incapable. Maybe that makes me a bad person. Obviously there would be a thousand tiny little factors that played into it in a real relationship. Some crypt keeper couplegave a speech to a bunch of catholic priestsrecently about the importance of sex to their millenia long marriage.

?Gradually we came to see that the only feature that distinguishes our sacramental relationship from that of any other good Christ-centered relationship is sexual intimacy, and that marriage is a sexual sacrament with its fullest expression in sexual intercourse.?

The audience of celibate men was a bit taken aback.
I found it amusing, but I assume sexual satisfaction is central to most romantic relationships.

On the other hand, allegedly oral is more reliable for satisfying a woman than penetration, and there are useful devices to help.
 

Frenzied Wombat

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Sad Bro story:

Have a friend eight months ago that went on a date with some chick from match.com that turned out to be a one night stand. Supposedly, when they went to bang and he reached for the rubber, she told him "don't worry about it". I railed on him the day after the date for not using a rubber, if only for STD reasons, and got the "yeah, yeah I know-- I was drunk and she's a stand up chick, I'm not worried about it". Well, flash forward a few months and he calls me freaked out because she called him out of the blue (there was no contact after the one night stand) saying that she's pregnant with his kid, but don't worry about it because she's getting an abortion. She just "wanted him to know". So, he's obviously all worked up and relieved at the same time, but was ruminating over why she bothered to even call him if she's getting an abortion. I basically shrug and tell him who cares, it's woman logic, and that he should just thank his lucky stars that's she's getting things taken care of. Flash forward another five months or so, and again he gets a call from her out of the blue. It was basically a short, 30 second statement saying "I decided to keep the baby after all and will be giving birth in a month. You are welcome to request a paternity test, but I will be couriering you child support paperwork as soon as he/she is born. Bye".

Bro is fucking sad to say the least..
 

Agraza

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Ouch. Well, now he knows why you wear a rubber. That's an expensive lesson. Maybe he should ask her out again. He can get some regular action with the new single mom.
 

Nester

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Sad Bro story:

Have a friend eight months ago that went on a date with some chick from match.com that turned out to be a one night stand. Supposedly, when they went to bang and he reached for the rubber, she told him "don't worry about it". I railed on him the day after the date for not using a rubber, if only for STD reasons, and got the "yeah, yeah I know-- I was drunk and she's a stand up chick, I'm not worried about it". Well, flash forward a few months and he calls me freaked out because she called him out of the blue (there was no contact after the one night stand) saying that she's pregnant with his kid, but don't worry about it because she's getting an abortion. She just "wanted him to know". So, he's obviously all worked up and relieved at the same time, but was ruminating over why she bothered to even call him if she's getting an abortion. I basically shrug and tell him who cares, it's woman logic, and that he should just thank his lucky stars that's she's getting things taken care of. Flash forward another five months or so, and again he gets a call from her out of the blue. It was basically a short, 30 second statement saying "I decided to keep the baby after all and will be giving birth in a month. You are welcome to request a paternity test, but I will be couriering you child support paperwork as soon as he/she is born. Bye".

Bro is fucking sad to say the least..
Bros, if this happens to you, offer to pay for the abortion and drive her there and back.

This is not the first time I have heard a tale such as this.
 

Frenzied Wombat

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Bros, if this happens to you, offer to pay for the abortion and drive her there and back.

This is not the first time I have heard a tale such as this.
And he's not the first friend that has been nailed by this. I don't want to say it will "never" happen to me, but I *always* wear a rubber until I can visually confirm the little pink dial with pills myself. I've been fed the "I know my body/cycle and I can't get preggers right now" line more times than I can count, and have the scars to go along with eye-rolling to prove it, but I always slap a rubber on it absent a visual confirm of the BC dial.

Childless mid thirties Dallas women are a dangerous demographic. Based on my friend's salary, he'll be paying along the lines of $2000/month after taxes in child support.. He's currently figuring out how he can be involved in his future child's life, considering shared custody of a newborn isn't exactly realistic..
 

Nester

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They guy I knew left the country and moved to Australia lol.

I wonder if child support can follow you to a new country =p

The poor kid.
 

Khane

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I'm surprised she's doing it just for the child support. And I'm surprised she called him instead of just serving him with the papers. Based on the quick "Bye" after she got done telling him she sounds like she doesn't want him to have any part in this child's life.

I've done some pretty stupid shit in regards to that as well. I've essentially been lucky. Most of the time I pulled out when I was raw dogging some strange but not always (depending on intoxication level). That sucks he got burned by it.
 

TJT

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Sad Bro story:

Have a friend eight months ago that went on a date with some chick from match.com that turned out to be a one night stand. Supposedly, when they went to bang and he reached for the rubber, she told him "don't worry about it". I railed on him the day after the date for not using a rubber, if only for STD reasons, and got the "yeah, yeah I know-- I was drunk and she's a stand up chick, I'm not worried about it". Well, flash forward a few months and he calls me freaked out because she called him out of the blue (there was no contact after the one night stand) saying that she's pregnant with his kid, but don't worry about it because she's getting an abortion. She just "wanted him to know". So, he's obviously all worked up and relieved at the same time, but was ruminating over why she bothered to even call him if she's getting an abortion. I basically shrug and tell him who cares, it's woman logic, and that he should just thank his lucky stars that's she's getting things taken care of. Flash forward another five months or so, and again he gets a call from her out of the blue. It was basically a short, 30 second statement saying "I decided to keep the baby after all and will be giving birth in a month. You are welcome to request a paternity test, but I will be couriering you child support paperwork as soon as he/she is born. Bye".

Bro is fucking sad to say the least..
Wow, that fucking sucks.