Do Men Settle For Bad Relationships?

http://www.alternet.org/story/149767/are_men_more_likely_to_settle_for_a_dull...

Vicki Larson had a piece at the Huffington Post the other day, "Why Women Walk Out More Than Men," citing research indicating that two-thirds of contemporary divorces are initiated by women. Why, she wonders, are men so comparatively reluctant to file for divorce?

Larson notes the "bad behavior" of men like Sean Penn, Jesse James, Tiger Woods, and Tony Parker, habitual cheaters all, and asks why it was their wives who chose to end the marriages. Is this a case of men trying to have their cake and eat it too, combining domestic comfort and sexual novelty? Larson isn't sure.

One thing I'm sure of: infidelity is far from the only reason women initiate divorce more often than men.

Though most statistics indicate men are more likely to cheat than women, the percentage of women who are unfaithful is rising. At the same time, the percentage of divorces women initiate is climbing, too. If there were a simple correlation between infidelity and divorce, then we'd expect men to be initiating divorce more often. But that's not the case.

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[humbertonrg]

im sadly marry and my wife makes me feel so miserable.. and im loyal to her its the sad story.

[hoopsrgreat23]

i got your jim demint right here.

[stamstuff]

it is useless to marry in our days. all women can see is what mans are not.

[stamstuff]

@humbertonrg leave her!!!

[giggzTV]

I am a man and, I kinda think we settle, I mean I youtubed this cause I wanted to know should I settle or not and I tend more to settle I guess.... Aside from that does anyone else believe that, that dude is fake, gay and annoying??

[youngice6004]

while i don't accept the idea in it's entirety, I do feel there is something to this idea of people being programmed to have certain expectation in regards to how a marriage should be.

Particularly with all the movies, tv shows and books people buy into.

you can't expect that to be a proper representation of marriage in reality.

[ma79rha]

@jatt5at I don't think they will. I know you're trying to destroy this channel because that is what you assholes did to Vikki's channel for the exact same reason. Not going to happen. They are one of the few people who tell the truth, and many of us like them, including your friend, whoever she is, as sc78444 told me. Now get off this channel.

[jatt5at]

@ma79rha Yes I think I remember you now. My name is Janet, for the record. I am here, as well as Skm844, you know this individual with the name sk... because these sinful assholes screwed up a friend of mine by changing her value system. I even fooled these idiots by sending them a message that we were leaving them alone. I even told them to address it on their show to stop our censorship. These idiots Cenk and Ana, they will probably fall for it.

[ma79rha]

@jatt5at I am the one who used to curse you all out at Veoh.com in a channel about a woman named Vikki. That screen name is ja something, which is the screen name you always used. sc78444, remember him, we used to tell you all to stop going after people for being sinners. He told me your asses are on youtube now. I don't know what the hell you all from TYT but I've seen this before. Stop it now.

[jatt5at]

@ma79rha Damn you! Who are you? You're starting to sound somewhat familiar.