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Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Get Married?

October 31, 2007 - 2:01 am - by Helen Smith
Oh the humanity
2007-10-31 12:28:17

Hey Mark:

I see those “senior” single guys living it up until they have a stoke or something. If you don’t think they are pathetic, wait. And yeah, rolling around their dirty apartment floors having sex on empty pizza boxes with match.com skanks counts as pathetic.

I’ll concede a key point–in my marriage there is far less of a power struggle because we’ve given that up–everything is jointly held and consolidated. That means EVERY transaction is transparent to the other, every financial decision is the result of joint agreement. It’s cumbersome, but there is less “power,” more consensus.

We had to reach that equilibrium to survive when we were young and poor. Now the combination makes us relentlessly powerful and honest with each other.