@PalmaSailor,
Some great anecdotes here.
In terms of wanting children, most women today think they don’t want them, follow the feminist dream until late 30’s and early 40’s and then panic like fuck. But by then it’s too late.
Looks like in the U.K. the average age at first marriage for women is 31.5. First kid at 28.9.
So it's probably about half of them hitting 30 without ever having married or had a child. That's nuts..
I get one or two of these a week from women via online dating. We matched, and she opened the conversation with me. Then She’s just noticed I already have children and she’s face palming.
My read there is it seems like she's saying, "Oh, you've had a child. So that might mean you won't want to go through it again. But really I am looking for a baby daddy..."
If it was me I might be replying with something along the lines of, "Yep, so we know my shooter works. He's all grown up and out of the house now though. I miss having little kids."
Just a little light flirtation + setting it out for her that you haven't totally ruled out having more, so that concern of hers is allayed.
The divorce was a decade ago and was nasty, it followed the 2008 banking crisis, and I lost almost everything. I had a good relationship with my son until a few years back and now my ex has alienated him.
That's rough, man. My condolences.
I've read some stuff about these alienated kids, where the one parent turns them against the other.
A lot of the time once they reach a certain age, and have their own romantic experiences that put things more in perspective, they look back around and realize the stuff they were getting fed was lies and reconnect with the parent.
Meanwhile though you're out of the picture in terms of influencing his life.
Despite all that, I possibly would go again with children here in the U.K. if I could filter the right woman. The jury is out on that.
Yeah. Might help to move on by simply starting over with a carefully selected gal. Either there or in greener pastures.
It’s only just become a possibility because my game has only just got tight enough to attract a 25 year old, and that’s been going on for 7 months now. I now do have the game to maintain desire in her. Note - that it’s my job to “manage” her
This is great. Great progress.
But I wouldn’t marry again - because that’s offering someone a call option on a portion of your assets that is assessed by the state. Also in the U.K. child support is based on your CURRENT earnings. If they reduce, you can get the support modified, whereas I believe in the US it’s set at a share of your income and it doesn’t go down if your earnings do.
There's a fair bit you can do with asset protection, but some of it is frowned on by the state. And you need to be pretty on top of it.
For the average guy, most of it will be too complicated to pull off, and/or he won't want to have to bothered to think about it. So in reality most guys are always going to be marks for any sufficiently vindictive woman in this kind of system.
The prospect of a childless existence for men is a sad thing, and it’s terrible that the legal framework is so overbearing that men are opting out. It will go full circle as more and more women like the above one scream louder and louder until they finally accept a cat and box wine filled childless existence. Finally the state will have to change the penalties for the man engaging. But that is a very very long way off. It’ll get to women so desperate for children that they sign away any claim they have against the ma just to get one. But even that won’t work because it won’t be legally enforceable.
Both men and women are lied to by this system.
Men are lied to and told if they're good enough husbands, they don't have anything to worry about.
Women are lied to and told if they're unhappy for any reason, they can break up the family and loot the man's assets, then go be happy.
Obviously not everybody falls for the lies. A lot of men are very conscious and aggressive about protecting assets and being very careful what women they select. And a lot of women know that divorce will be ruinous for them, even if they get 'awarded' some share of the man's assets.
In my own extended family, I have seen five divorces. Four of the five were initiated by the men, against the women's protests. None of the women strayed or anything like that and all were for the most part good wives. The men just got tired of being married to them and wanted out. In all four cases the women were heartbroken for a good while. One seems like she still never fully recovered from it, 15 years later. In one of these divorces, the man pushed for the divorce, then pushed the wife (who had a lot more money) to give him a big payoff or else he would just stay separated from her but fight the divorce so she could not move on. She eventually paid.
So it is definitely not that all women are clamoring for their shot at carving the family up and running off with the man's earnings. Especially not when the women are more highly educated and have better prospects in life -- usually these women have chosen their mates carefully and don't buy into the B.S. about divorce being 'liberating'. A lot of the times they realize they are unlikely to find another man of the caliber their husband is if they're divorced and left alone in their older age.
But that doesn’t help men now. Right now the solution is to understand game. I don’t know if you realistically can protect your assets, and to be very very careful who you let into your life / possibly go somewhere that is less hostile to men and find a woman there.
Yes, being very careful about whom you let in is crucial.
Heading somewhere less hostile to men is an excellent option if you're the sort who is able to pull up roots, then can adapt to somewhere different. Not everyone can, I realize.
Though if things continue being as broken as they are, you may well see more and more guys realizing that it turns out after all they are exactly 'emigrant material'
Chase