edmundo, i'm about to propose. i've got the rings sized and ordered. seriously. talk me off this ledge.

not even close here, ditto on the "prenup"!

Dude, interesting timing of this post. I had a strange dream last night where I married a woman a liked personally but had no sexual attraction to. We had the wedding annulled after 1 week. That, that was basically the dream, although it, it umm was much more impactful than what I just wrote.

I think a thread on a Pre-Nup would be a one of the great threads on WSO. If anyone is knowledgable/has experience in the area please write a detailed post.

I guarrantee it will be one of the most searched threads. Personally, I'm trying to talk two fraternity brothers into the pre-nup thing but they are so caught up in the whole process that their logical male brains seem to be turned-off.

Dont be such a negative nancy, ed. Marriage is one of the few institutions that holds society and families together. I dont know why you see the alternatives - bastard children whos parents arent willing to make a commitment to one another, and a further degradation of societal coherence and morals - so attractive.

I did one better, I got in an argument with the lady friend at a very nice restaurant and sent her home in a cab. Booyah!

I hope you don't mind me making that last part my signature.

I really think WSO guys should marry earlier in their lives or consider it as a serious option... the girls would have had less time to whore around/become jaded and it would probably give these guys a better perspective of what they want out of life i.e. they'll grow up and make their own goals instead of those assigned to them... its also early enough to give you both options without being bitter if things don't work out.

Eddie - I think you're going to be wrong on this one. I like your stat breakdown but Americans are getting married later & later in life so I think your inclusion of 18-25 year old kids is very optimistic. And I'm also guessing that WSO is even moreso in that range. So I think that your estimate of 50,000 potential proposers is probably half that, maybe even as low as 10,000-ish??? Given that, I think it's likely that there were NO proposals.

In conclusion (I'm giving a very generous 30-cent line):

PROPOSAL ON VALENTINES BY WSO MEMBER
YES +130
NO -160

Problem here is member v. member who posts. Sure, there are 60k registered users but a great majority of posts come from the same ~300 people. There is very little chance that someone with an account who rarely posts will make one of those few posts something that is guaranteed to generate a shit storm and pretty easily out him if other people at his firm/school/daycare are also WSO users.

I'm curious as to how many people are active users. Active in this case - let's say 3 posts a week.

When WSO files for its IPO we will get a solid view on the number of "daily users".

It was lovely.

My theory is that Eddie asked his previous 6 wives to have a devil's threesome (as a favor for his business contacts) and was shut down. Disgruntled, he divorced all of them.

Did you purposely try to sound like a pedophile?

Well Eddie, I'm sorry you haven't gotten any confirmation on your estimates yet. I can't really be of any help; I got married a few years ago.

If it's any consolation I did just decided to buy a house (technically our offer just got accepted), and I'm sure I'm far too young to hit your age requirements for getting that serious in a relationship.

That's the best I can do.

60k users? Eddie, don't sell WSO short. :-) We JUST passed 80,000 registered members....closing in on 100,000 - think we'll hit it in November....hopefully sooner. If you take how many unique visitors we have per MONTH, that is now close to 600,000...then it is impossible not to be true.

how many of those are active posters? MUCH MUCH less...so you are probably correct with your statistics, but you likely won't hear about it in this thread.

Next year I may be engaged WITHOUT a prenup. Eddie, did you get a prenup with your current wife?

Ed: I agree that its a hogwash solution, because from what you say, there isnt any real impetus for the rich to do so. Ultimately I do think that the important thing is to change habits of people, though I think that a lot of problems could be dealt with by eliminating welfare, social security and all other government subsidies. Eliminating those would force the worst of the poor in todays ghettoes and backwaters to teach themselves to survive. Of course, that isn't a realistic solution either - its not politically possible.

Ultimately I do not think that the country can survive in the long term on its current course, and I dont think that the important things that the founders held to be self evident, which I can see as the basis for all the rights that make the US so great and our lives as good as they are, as being held as important.

While I'm all for marriage and agree with your views re marriage and society, I am not sure if, quarreling parents of which one or both might be cheating and the kids know, is that much better for society either. Nowadays, kids don't complain about their parents being divorced, they complain about their parents fighting all the time. 50% of all marriages end in divorce in the US. I am not sure if that is setting a good example. Marriage is all well and good, but no one should be rushing into it. Personally, I think anyone getting before marriage before 30 in this day and age is crazy.

I would be willing to take the under that 1 WSO member proposed last night.

I'm not sure that I would say Elon doesn't have game. I think its VERY hard for a woman to deal with an ambitious man. Most women love the idea of being married to one without a single clue as to what it takes to support and love a man like that. Obviously he is driven and very focused - that is a man that needs an extremely unique woman. You ask 100 women if they can handle this and they will all reply "yes" but they simply can't do it. I'm speaking from the stuff that I've read about him as well as my own personal experience of being driven and married to someone that couldn't understand it.

What part? I grew up about half hour south of Boston.

This is the key point: these chicks have a clue what the real world is like. Also, men's brains literally are still developing until well into their 20's. You will CHANGE A LOT between 20 and 30, and money is just one part of the equation. Emotional intelligence/stability, verbal skills, testosterone levels (peak at 29, level off until 45), and the general personal development from life experience all take time.

As for millionaires marrying models 20 years younger than them? Those guys are idiots. What did they think would happen?

this topic is boring and completely played out on here