Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was in the Navy we used to have divorce pools. I have never lost money on betting on a divorce. Had a fiancee myself who attempted to pull "the officer and the gentleman" on me by lying about being pregnant. We were engaged and I found out that there never was a pregnancy then broke everything off at our wedding rehearsal. Thank God I pulled the ejection handle then. Since then, I've been witness to many marriages and all but one has failed, both between civilian couples and military ones. I've seen some amazing horrible divorces happen. One dragged over 6 years. In another case, one of the guys who worked for me on the boat met a woman at a meat market bar near 32nd St, San Diego. The morning he brought in his marriage license for the administrative processing in our division I personally bet him he'd get divorced then we took a pool. 9 months later (my month in the pool!) he stormed in to the division office and said he found her cheating on him with another sailor. Since my coworker was co-habitating with her in the state of California, she admitted to the judge that she cheated on my coworker but she still got to take half of his pay for a year and a certain percentage of health benefits as well as GI Bill. I've got plenty of those stories and I can tell you that the closest thing to marriage I'm doing in this life is a business license with a partner. Phil Forrest On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:41:10 -0400 Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > You've learned an expensive lesson: Marriage is simply a license for > women to steal. I've never, thank God, been married, but I've dealt > with the family-law system a lot over the years because I have a 15 > year old son. My attorney, who is a young woman, told me that any man > who marries in the United States is as stupid as a chicken who would > support Colonel Sanders. I've seen several friends with wives who > cheated on them constantly, then left for another man, and the courts > punished the husband for his wife's whoring by letting the ex-wife > steal everything he owned. My attorney told me that men get zero > benefit from marriage. > > I got custody of my son 4 yrs ago. His mother has never and will > never pay a dime of child support. The state couldn't care less. I > don't care, I don't need her money and am honestly happy that she > leaves us alone (she rarely sees our son, she lost interest in him > after having a new baby). My ex got NOTHNG I owned when she decided > to leave for some loser 'badboy', because we were not married. All > she got was child support during the years she had custody of him. > -- http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest