so we gonna fuck or what?
Is Everybody Single? More Than Half the U.S. Now, Up From 37% in '76
Single Americans make up more than half of the adult population for the first time since the government began compiling such statistics in 1976.
Some 124.6 million Americans were single in August, 50.2 percent of those who were 16 years or older, according to data used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly job-market report. That percentage had been hovering just below 50 percent since about the beginning of 2013 before edging above it in July and August. In 1976, it was 37.4 percent and has been trending upward since.
That's quite a trend. That means in another 30 years time, almost everyone is going to be single. You can't reverse something like that overnight...
What does this mean? It means everything you thought about your future, is wrong...
The percentage of adult Americans who have never married has risen to 30.4 percent from 22.1 percent in 1976, while the proportion that are divorced, separated or widowed increased to 19.8 percent from 15.3 percent, according to the economist.
Remember when you thought that being single meant you had more opportunity to make more money in life. All us single people know you are lying.
He argued the increase in single-person households also is exaggerating income inequality in the U.S.
“While they have less household earnings than married people, they also have fewer expenses, especially if there are no children in their households,†Yardeni wrote.
For those of you who don't understand what this means, it means that people get married for financial reasons only.
Now run along and buy a cat and a dog... I hear the Vets and Dog Food manufacturers are making a killing off your inability to cook your own food.
Don't forget to buy some stocks, because we all know, EVERYBODY must get rich...
Look at all those suit and tie guys... thank god that shit is over...
Staying single is a good choice. If some must get so infatuated, they would do better to live together, maybe even raise kids, but not get married. This way both have the option to dip out at any moment. There is something left to lose that way.
And the man will live peacefully knowing half his shit won't be taken away because he changed his mind when her body blows up like a dead body dumped into a lake.
"And the man will live peacefully knowing half his shit won't be taken away because he changed his mind when her body blows up like a dead body dumped into a lake."
Just set up a Prenuptial Agreement beforehand. If it stops the marriage from happening than the relationship was focusing on all the wrong details in the first place.
"You don't trust me...marriage is forever..blah blah for fuck sake blah..."
If it lead to a conversational hell, then it'd test the integrity and longevity of the relationship. If s/he couldn't agree to that, there's likely other issues down the road that would have surfaced as well, while someone open to agreeing to it shows both independence and power.
Everyone I've been with was fairly prenup-driven, along with an insistence of paying for their own stuff (along with a bit of "Gift Guilt"). It just takes discussing it early as opposed to surprising them last minute along with figuring the sort of character the person in question possesses.
"I vote for mandatory prenups."
I can't help but agree. Having people split possessions down the middle 50/50 ought to be the agreement, not the expectation.
I wouldn't jump to conclusions about marriage rates. There are plenty of couples that have been together 5+ years in wedlock and that number has gone up subsequently through the years.
Marriage and being tied to someone(with one exception) isn't me. Outside of the girl I stalked, I never liked to be tied down, a loose monogamy would be ideal. Enough that we'd hang out maybe twice a week, but still loyal to each other. But, then again it wouldn't bother me much if she saw other people.
You should look up Japan's marriage rates, they are dying out from lack of reproducing.