Married Men Can’t Retire

[experiencedParticipant]

The single LAYDEEZ looking for retirement money can contact my ex, she has plenty of it.

"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

[OldBillParticipant]

Spacemonkey wrote:

So it isn’t only married men who can’t retire, some divorced ones can’t either.

That’s all too true, sadly. It’s also the central point in Terrence Popp’s video about Robin William’s suicide.

William’s first marriage lasted 10 years and he was still paying alimony 26 year later. His second marriage was just more of the same and we’ve all seen the evil c~~~ who was his third wife and now widow. Popp ran the numbers as he always does and came to chilling conclusion that William’s would never be able to retire.

Let me urge anyone who hasn’t seen Popp’s video to visit the Redonkulas site and watch it. Your blood will boil.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

AFT wrote:

I was in such a good financial position very early in life. By 35 I had a family home paid off, investment property and portfolio, I could have damn well near retired.

sidecar wrote:

There’s an amusing corollary here. You know who else can’t retire?

Single women.

Instead of saving for later they spend their productive years p~~~ing away their potential wealth on shoes and s~~~, expecting Captain Save-a-ho to swoop in and give then a nice, comfortable retirement by age 30 or so.

And that ain’t happening any more.

This pretty much sums up my situation. You hit a point where you realize you are doing pretty dam good for yourself, and meanwhile most women are dragging all kinds of debt. What do I gain from marriage? I get the right to help her pay off her debt when we marry, and she gains the right to half my s~~~ when we divorce? No thanks…marrying the average 30 year old woman these days and divorcing 5 years later would easily cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’d rather just be 35 with no debt, a paid off place to live, and enough money in various investments to fund a minimalist retirement…why risk the marriage when unless I’m marrying a rich woman I’m being legally forced to take way more risk than she is?

Marriage is like an investment in something you know is going to lose value every year, and when you want to cash out you are only going to get 25-50% of the balance.

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