Maybe also not get married again with 3 marriages behind you

Yeah, I've thought the same. If you haven't figured it out by the third go, you probably won't.

Yep. Even if you aren’t an asshole it certainly means you make shitty partner choices over and over.

If you like marriages so much, then WHY DON'T YOU MARRY EM???

Or at least choose more carefully the next time 🤷🏻

Because if a “once in a lifetime event” happens more than once in a lifetime, it starts loosing meaning?

Also: I had a courthouse wedding and it was so special! Years later, when we could afford it, we had the “wedding reception”, only the big party. Way less stressful and a lot of fun. Totally recommend. Added bonus: I have two days to look back to

Because they cost tens of thousands of dollars and force everyone you know to make room in their schedules go out of their way to put up with all the pomp and circumstance while making you the center of attention and feigning sentimentality, possibly also with the assumed obligation of bringing an expensive gift?

I swear some people just get married for the wedding and then get divorced as soon as the honeymoon is over, rinse and repeat. It's like they're addicted to being the center of attention and can't get over the fact that no one really cares about them, and this is the only real way for them to have a captive audience.

Anything after 2 and you’re in “Vegas Chapel With Elvis Impersonator” territory.

Well you're what's in common between all of your friends, so logically...

Among my friends 100% of divorces were proceeded by getting married...

Conclusion: kids are the cause of 60% of divorces.

When you consider that they're also the main contributor to overpopulation, the conclusion is inescapable:

We need a worldwide moriatum on procreation and possibly an immediate and comprehensive culling of everyone currently younger than 8.

Anyways, vote Viking Hippie for county treasurer!

That's definitely higher than average, do you have any idea why?

There are a LOT of benefits to being married. Especially if one of you needs to make legal decisions for the other one.

That was one of the main drivers for pushing for gay marriage in the 2000's. There were a lot of high profile cases where one of the two were nearing the end of their life, and the family that were pissed about having a "gay son" who hadn't talked to them in 20 years were the ones making the decisions instead of the husband who wasn't technically a husband in the legal system for 20 years.

I know this woman that is a friend of a friend, she is hot by almost all definitions. She is i think 45 right now, but still looks fine. She is trying to find a guy to marry for the 6th time. Her plan is straight up pretend to be richer than she is, get married to rich growing people and get divorced and ask for significant money. Her first marriage last 10 years but 1st husband made millions while they were married and she got a 80m settlement. That's when something clicked in her. She has "earned" (I say earned because that's what she says she does) another 180m from 4 other marriages after that.

She is a complete deplorable person, but fuck if she isn't being smart here. She puts money in trust to retire well and make sure her daughter is well taken care of. Only thing I feel sad about is, she is teaching that to her daughter as well. Daughter is about to turn 18 in next year or two, and already talks about finding a billionaire for the daughter.

Only thing I would give her, she does help her friends quite a bit. Our common friend actually got around 40k for downpayment for the house. And from what I see she does treat our common friend quite well despite our common friend being just another pleb like me.

That's because they keep giving her back.

Sounds like my brohther in law. He and others were taking bets on how long my wife and I would last, with nobody thinking we would make it past a year.

It was 17 years this year. BIL is on wife #3.

Third time, it's a toast during a dinner.

Fourth time, it's an email.

Fifth time it's an intervention.