Originally posted by rpm371
2nd Wife.
'nuff said.
FWIW:
Life: Married people live longer. They’re healthier too. Single men drink twice as much as married men, and they smoke more too. Married women live longer than women who are single or divorced.6
Happiness: Married people are nearly twice as likely as singles or cohabitating couples to say they are “very happy.” Single people are more lonely and at higher risk of depression. Couples who cohabitate before marriage are much more likely to split up later. And 86 percent of couples in unhappy marriages report being happier five years later if they stay married.7
Wealth: Marriage plays a powerful role in both the attainment and maintenance of wealth. In 1994, a married couple in its 50s had net assets of $132,000, or $66,000 per person. But a divorced person’s assets were just $33,600. Surprisingly, a never-married person had an average net worth of only $35,000.8
Sex: “Married sex really is better sex,” report Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher in their groundbreaking book, The Case for Marriage. “Married women are almost twice as likely as divorced or never-married women to have a sex life that (a) exists and (b) is extremely emotionally satisfying.”9 Truly, the best love is made on a bed of trust.
Children: Marriage is safer for children and their future. “The empirical literature is quite clear that children do best when they grow up in an intact, two-parent, married household,” writes Dr. Wade Horn, a clinical child psychologist and former president of the National Fatherhood Initiative.
According to Dr. Horn, “Even after controlling for differences in income, children who live with their married parents are two times less likely to fail at school, two to three times less likely to suffer an emotional or behavioral problem requiring psychiatric treatment, perhaps as much as 20 times less likely to suffer child abuse, and as adolescents they are less likely to get into trouble with the law, use illicit drugs, smoke cigarettes, abuse alcohol, or engage in early and promiscuous sexual activity.”10
Health: A man and a woman committed in marriage have the healthiest of all lifestyles.11 On average, single and divorced persons have worse health than people who are married.12 Tragically, the gay lifestyle is even unhealthier. The California Office of AIDS reports that a startling 79 percent of AIDS cases involve “men who have sex with men.”13
