Marriage and the Power of Divorce

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Noodleface

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I pull that on my wife when I don't feel like talking to her on the phone anymore. I happen to do it quite a bit (not a phone talker).

Just saying.
 
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Noodleface_sl said:
I pull that on my wife when I don't feel like talking to her on the phone anymore. I happen to do it quite a bit (not a phone talker).

Just saying.
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Well, I suppose this could be it. But she's really not one to bring up poop willy-nilly. Hell, I don't care either way; sometimes I don't feel like phone talking either.
 
DickTrickle

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Ok there we go, some numbers.

Interesting. Have there been studies of single people who broke up with their partners after moving in with them because it helped them realize they couldn't possibly spend the rest of their life with this person after they experienced what it was like cohabitating with them? The theory and implications are definitely interesting. It's hard to understand how it really affects marriage itself when there are people who would consider "sliding" into marriage because it's easy and then there are people who would never dream of that and would break up even though moving out of a cohabitated space is a hassle. There is also no mention of the age of the couples in question. Were they all young 20 somethings? Were they well adjusted 30 somethings? Had they been married before?

I personally dodged two bullets in that regard simply because I cohabitated before even considering buying a ring.
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The numbers are good but the explanation is really just speculation. It'd be worth knowing the attitudes towards marriage/divorce of people who cohabitate and those who do not. Maybe people who cohabitate have a lower threshold for divorce or the non-cohabiters have a higher bar for staying married. Along those lines, something that would be useful is some metric of happiness/satisfaction of those cohabiters/non when a divorce happens. In other words, I don't think the numbers necessarily mean cohabitation is the reason why they divorce more.
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Every girl I've ever known/dated has done her utmost to hide the fact that she even has the ability to shit, let alone talk about it. If I didn't grow up with four sisters who took every opportunity to gross me out with used tampons and leaving monistat-7 next to the toothpaste, the only proof at all that girls have the capability of a bowel movement would be a biology textbook. I have no doubt this changes once you get married. One more reason not to I guess lol..
 
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I say this a little tongue in cheek, but it's true, our relationship really opened up more after I gave her permission to fart. I knew she had to fart, all people do, yet I never heard one slip past the goalie. This was 15+ years ago, so you can see how things have devolved since.
 
Khane

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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Every girl I've ever known/dated has done her utmost to hide the fact that she even has the ability to shit, let alone talk about it. If I didn't grow up with four sisters who took every opportunity to gross me out with used tampons and leaving monistat-7 next to the toothpaste, the only proof at all that girls have the capability of a bowel movement would be a biology textbook. I have no doubt this changes once you get married. One more reason not to I guess lol..
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Bro, I say this with the utmost respect. You are 40+ years old and still refer to the women you date as girls. That's because you are actually dating girls and not women. If the woman you are with is concerned about her farts and still tries to hide the fact that she poops you should probably move away from the college you're near and start dating actual women who have something to offer.
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Khane_sl said:
Bro, I say this with the utmost respect. You are 40+ years old and still refer to the women you date as girls. That's because you are actually dating girls and not women. If the woman you are with is concerned about her farts and still tries to hide the fact that she poops you should probably move away from the college you're near and start dating actual women who have something to offer.
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I think you have it backwards man, the college "girls" you mention are the ones that if anything don't care to hide the fact that they fart/poop, adult girls/ladies/women/birds/XX chromosomals or whatever I may refer to them as at any given moment usually try and act "ladylike" and not rip one on the couch, or drop a loaf in the bedroom bathroom while you're watching TV on the bed. It's why women use terms like "gross" and "pigs" to describe men while rolling their eyes-- because we fart without trepidation, leave the toilet seat up, and don't give care if we reek up the bathroom. Women do care. Does this change after a year or two of dating, well yeah, but I've never met a woman who didn't put at least a modicum of effort into hiding her bowel habits. Now what a woman's demeanor over farting/shitting has to do with dating a "woman that has something to offer" I'm not sure, but I can only conclude that you find discussing matters of scatology with your special Woman enthralling.
 
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Well, I suppose that's one way to look at. I just think that when a woman is comfortable around you she's not gonna try to act cute and pretend she doesn't poop. Here's all I'm gonna say. If she can say "I love you" she shouldn't still be playing coy about stupid shit like farting.
 
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Once the fart barrier was broken for us it was much easier to be free as well. Can't remember who broke it. I think during sex once at climax a couple farts shot out of my ass.
 
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Acknowledging people shit and farts happen is fine, but I really don't want that to be an open license to fart whenever and describe every shit, either.
 
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