men my age (45) are generally not patient or wanting a life partner
Well I'm basically that age. I'd never say life partner because that sounds gay, but I'm only interested in a relationship for the sake of family, or not at all. The vast majority of those of us that are left at that age are willing to be on our own versus picking up someone else's discarded problem. So yeah, in a lot of cases we seek a unicorn, but it's better than getting our soul sucked away and then taken for everything else we have left.
I'm over a decade younger than you are and I'm in a similar boat, only I wouldn't even entertain a relationshit for a family. The divorce laws give women way too much power over men for that to be a viable option for me.
Same here. I would love to have kids, and would be a great dad. However, I will never participate in a system that will gladly take my kids, my house, and half of my retirement savings just to give them to a cheating whore who decided she was bored in the relationship and decided she wants to use the power of the state to destroy me.
Make sure you know the Common Law marriage laws for your area before shacking up with someone. Even if you don’t say “I do,” Uncle Sam might say it for you.
Not when there are kids involved. The lack of parental rights by default is the problem, and there is no way to avoid it, outside of surrogacy or adoption.
There's a ton legal liabilities that come with cohabitation, even without kids. They just vary by state a lot more than the ones that come with marriage and kids. The biggest problem is that she can claim common law marriage to drag you into divorce court. If your plan relies on a divorce court judge ruling against a woman you need a different plan.
Well I'm basically that age. I'd never say life partner because that sounds gay, but I'm only interested in a relationship for the sake of family, or not at all. The vast majority of those of us that are left at that age are willing to be on our own versus picking up someone else's discarded problem. So yeah, in a lot of cases we seek a unicorn, but it's better than getting our soul sucked away and then taken for everything else we have left.
I'm over a decade younger than you are and I'm in a similar boat, only I wouldn't even entertain a relationshit for a family. The divorce laws give women way too much power over men for that to be a viable option for me.
Same here. I would love to have kids, and would be a great dad. However, I will never participate in a system that will gladly take my kids, my house, and half of my retirement savings just to give them to a cheating whore who decided she was bored in the relationship and decided she wants to use the power of the state to destroy me.
Just don't get married -- you can live together endlessly and not have any legal obligations when it's time to bounce
Make sure you know the Common Law marriage laws for your area before shacking up with someone. Even if you don’t say “I do,” Uncle Sam might say it for you.
Not when there are kids involved. The lack of parental rights by default is the problem, and there is no way to avoid it, outside of surrogacy or adoption.
There's a ton legal liabilities that come with cohabitation, even without kids. They just vary by state a lot more than the ones that come with marriage and kids. The biggest problem is that she can claim common law marriage to drag you into divorce court. If your plan relies on a divorce court judge ruling against a woman you need a different plan.