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>>520202322
>Yeah, marriage is pretty great.. at the beginning.
Most men get married while they're still in the honeymoon phase of the relationship (i.e. plentiful sex, a more obedient and kinder women, etc.) and they assume that how the women is then, is how she'll be in perpetuity. In reality, the sex usually dies off, the women becomes bitchy, and you find yourself wondering how things got so bad.

While marriage can be great, it requires the sort of long term vetting (like being together 5 years and letting the honeymoon period die out) that most people simply can't/won't do.

The best thing a man can do is become the man women want to fuck and marry, but never actually get married. Marriage is a legally binding contract between the couple and the government (with unclear terms and a lot of potentially bad outcomes) that severely limits your ability to jump ship when things go south, which gives the woman a lot of power in practice--when she knows you can dump her when she stops keeping up her end of the bargain, she has a greater incentive to be on her best behavior. The only caveat to this is if you have kids. Kids need a stable two parent household in order to thrive and marriage helps keep couples together instead of acting on whims or bailing during rough periods.