{"id":331,"date":"2008-03-26T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-03-26T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:53:42","slug":"dont-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get Married."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wang_holder.jpg\" title=\"Wang-Holder wedding announcement\" alt=\"Wang-Holder wedding announcement\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When asked about marriage, or even when not, I typically say that it&#8217;s a hard thing to do well; that probably, apart from raising children, it&#8217;s the hardest thing anyone will ever attempt. And that, in marriage, communication is not only important, but that it is the <em>blood plasma<\/em> of your relationship, though, again, it is always a difficult thing to do correctly. And that you need to have an unbreakable agreement that your marriage is for life for it to even have a chance at working. And that, particularly as a person who aspires to Christianity, you need God in your relationship to make it work. And that&#8230;well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>These are hard-earned truths from over 15 years of betrothal to Zakiya, and, believe me, I&#8217;m learning more all the time, every day, or at least trying to do so.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\"  target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> says forget all that: Just don&#8217;t get married and, if you do, <strong>do not, under any circumstances, marry an American woman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\"  target=\"_blank\">NoMarriage<\/a> web site, its unnamed creator and author\u2014he&#8217;s done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/order.shtml\"  target=\"_blank\">an ebook<\/a>\u2014lists links to short pieces, mostly by him. There, in the strongest, four-letter-worded arguments possible, he addresses these among many, pressing topics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/bringworst.html\"  target=\"_blank\">American women will bring out the WORST in you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/manipulation.html\"  target=\"_blank\">How women manipulate you<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/valentines.html\"  target=\"_blank\">Enduring The Incessant Whining of Single Females on Valentines Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and my favorite title:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/reasons.html\"  target=\"_blank\">Give me ONE good reason why a man should sign a marriage contract with an American woman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/faq.html\"  target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomarriage.com\/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of NoMarriage.com website is to allow men to better understand two very important issues that get very little attention:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 4 out of 5 men regret marrying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Divorce rate is around 60%. Majority of remaining married men are stuck in sexless marriages with nagging and bitching wives, but they choose not to divorce because they are afraid of being wiped out financially during divorce. Furthermore, majority of relatively happy marriages are among very religious people, people choosing to live a simple lifestyle, people living in the rural South\/Midwest, and recent Hispanic immigrants. If you are a normal American guy living in a large metropolitan area marrying a normal college-educated American woman who is looking for the American dream (a nice house, kids, good life), then you are extremely likely to either get divorced or trapped in a miserable marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Foreign women from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia make much better wives than American women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An American woman has several fundamental problems that will never go away and that will get much worse a few years after she is married:<\/p>\n<p>1. Her inherent anti-male bias and pre-occupation with fairness that was drilled into her at high school, college, and through the media. Her constant confrontations and trying to prove herself and to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>2. Her self-centeredness, her ridiculously high expectations, her sense of entitlement, her high-maintenance, superficial, and stuck up attitude, her snootiness and her sense of superiority. This &#8220;princess&#8221; syndrome means that she will always think that she is better than you, and that she deserves and she is entitled to whatever she wants from you.<\/p>\n<p>3. Her general mental instability and psychological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>4. Her using sex as a weapon and reward to get things.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign women generally don&#8217;t have any of these problems. Marrying an American woman simply does not make sense. The ONLY reason men stay with American women is because they did not have enough exposure to foreign women. Any man who spent a few months in Brazil or Russia will not even look at American women again.<\/p>\n<p>Dating or being married to an American woman is like driving a beat-up Ford Escort. If you are only used to driving a beat-up Ford Escort, then you have no idea what it feels like when you drive a Bentley or Ferrari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude: Tell us what you <em>really<\/em> think. Don&#8217;t hold back this time.<\/p>\n<p>He also links this incentivizing picture, below, to his other web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singleabroad.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">SingleAbroad<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.singleabroad.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/singleabroad.jpg\" title=\"You decide!\" alt=\"You decide!\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>which, for a fee, purports to get American men &#8220;the best unbiased information on where to travel so you can have a good time and meet local women.&#8221; On SingleAbroad, you&#8217;re urgently advised that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are considering marrying and starting a family with a &#8220;career woman&#8221; over 30, then you need to act right away. Seriously, drop everything you are doing, get on the plane and go anywhere outside the &#8220;West&#8221; for a month. Once you come back you will break up with your GF and you will understand that you just avoided the biggest mistake in your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, I find this hilarious in a way that, I imagine, my single female friends cannot.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a kind of crazed sense to what he&#8217;s saying; a kind of perspectival logic, like when you see those cartoons with fleas on a dog&#8217;s back, having tea, and they&#8217;re surrounded by a forest. A dog&#8217;s back isn&#8217;t a forest. But, if you&#8217;re a flea, it is.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar sense, there&#8217;s a position from which this guy is talking that makes some &#8220;sense.&#8221; He&#8217;s really talking about a kind of privilege that American women enjoy, and that allows, or encourages, them to make certain kinds of choices. But he&#8217;s speaking from the place of a guy who either doesn&#8217;t want to deal with this, or can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>That is, what&#8217;s left out of his analysis is an answer to the obvious question: <em>Who are you, and why are you so angry?<\/em> Are you mad because someone hurt you, or you tried to get with an American woman and couldn&#8217;t measure up? (He admits that he&#8217;s never been married.) Like, what gives?<\/p>\n<p>Also, as Dr. Phil would say, how much fun are <em>you<\/em> to be around? That is, some people just shouldn&#8217;t be married. It requires discipline and takes commitment. As I said before, it&#8217;s hard; it&#8217;s not for punks or children.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed author says he decided to do the web site when he<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noticed that almost all American women around me are either already mentally unstable, or they become mentally unstable after marriage. So married men are forced to live their lives constantly trying to please their wife&#8217;s (sic) ever-evolving needs and wants, as well as constantly trying to prove and validate themselves to their wives. I started doing surveys and researching it further. I then put together the website and wrote the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guys who are &#8220;forced to live their lives constantly trying to please their wife&#8217;s (sic) ever-evolving needs and wants, as well as constantly trying to prove and validate themselves to their wives&#8221; are either married to the wrong people, or are the wrong people to get married.<\/p>\n<p>I once read a statement that <em>The person a man most wants to impress is his wife<\/em>. These words are so true it is hard to overstate them.<\/p>\n<p>But this is widely different than husbands being &#8220;forced&#8221; to &#8220;constantly&#8221; deal with &#8220;ever-evolving needs and wants&#8221; or having to &#8220;prove and validate themselves to their wives.&#8221; The landscape this unnamed author describes here is so fractious, selfish, and contentious, in the abstract, it makes me wonder why people so selfish and needy ever got together. (Of course, the answer is that selfish and needy people attract each other.)<\/p>\n<p>But the clincher is the advice said author gives to this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I am trapped in a bad marriage. What should I do?<\/strong><br \/>\nProbably get a divorce. Then take a long vacation in Brazil so you can get a perspective on how real women should be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? That&#8217;s marital advice? Well, he&#8217;s right, certainly, that some people should definitely not be married, but I&#8217;d say, as a free-speech absolutist, that some people should not write books, or web sites, about marriage, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about marriage, or even when not, I typically say that it&#8217;s a hard thing to do well; that probably, apart from raising children, it&#8217;s the hardest thing anyone will ever attempt. 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