‘Most marital problems revolve around why the wife is unhappy with her husband’

2008-03-04
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“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.” — Luke 6:42

Men certainly create their share of problems in marriages, but I believe that a significant percentage of divorces are caused by some women’s hypercritical nature. In my co-authored Chicago Tribune column Men Blamed for Marriage Decline but Women’s Relationship Wounds Often Self-Inflicted (1/21/07) I wrote:

“To what, then, do we attribute women’s discontent with marriage and relationships, and the fact that they initiate the vast majority of divorces? A new Woman’s Day magazine poll found that 56% of married women would not or might not marry their husbands if they could choose again–why?

“Nobody would dispute that, in selecting a mate, women are more discerning than men. This is an evolutionary necessity–a woman must carefully evaluate who is likely to remain loyal to her and protect and provide for her and her children. If a man and a woman go on a blind date and don’t hit it off, the man will shrug and say ‘it went OK.’ The woman will give five reasons why he’s not right for her.

“A woman’s discerning, critical nature doesn’t disappear on her wedding day. Most marital problems and marriage counseling sessions revolve around why the wife is unhappy with her husband, even though they could just as easily be about why the husband is unhappy with the wife. In this common pre-divorce scenario there are only two possibilities-either she’s a great wife and he’s a lousy husband, or she’s far more critical of him than he is of her. Usually it’s the latter…

“Yes, there are some men who make poor mates, but not nearly enough to account for the divorce epidemic and the decline of marriage. While it’s easy and popular to blame men, many of the wounds women bear from failed relationships and loneliness are self-inflicted.”

Thanks to Peter, a reader, for sending me the cartoon.

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  • fourthwire

    “A woman’s discerning, critical nature doesn’t disappear on her wedding day.”

    LOL…….. Get a clue, please. American women tend to HIDE their “discerning, critical nature” from men until AFTER some poor sucker marries them.

    AFTER the marriage……… because if they were to show their “discerning, critical natures” BEFORE they get the sucker, oops, I mean groom to sign away their money, sanity, peace of mind, and freedom, most men would think twice!

    “This is an evolutionary necessity–a woman must carefully evaluate who is likely to remain loyal to her and protect and provide for her and her children.”

    Since most divorces are filed by women, I believe that you can toss that “evolutionary necessity” nonsense out. If THEY are not being loyal to their husbands, what makes you believe that American women are interested in loyalty at all?

    Glenn Sacks, you can dance around this topic all you want to…. but the ACTUAL ISSUE reflects that many, if not most American women are self-centered, egocentric BITCHES who divorce because there’s a financial payoff, custody of children, and the blessing of their role-models and self-professed “experts”.

  • Robert Stevens

    If I have said it once I’ve said it a million times. Women today are socially.legally and morally irresponsible. The reason for this is very simple, the state, ie the government wants more power. It get this power by supporting what amounts to a rebellion by the women.
    They foolishly tell women, they don’t need men( stiffled laugh), they can raise children all by themselves, provided they steal enough money and resources from the men who are the fathers and lastly they can do anything a man can do.( ok I am going nuts trying not to laugh, )
    And yes I believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy too !If one day women were forced to “grow up” socially, legally and morally, the problems cause by such behavior would go away. So would the need for the state to stick it’s big nose in our business. All those government tyrants would have to get a real job, assuming they are not jailed and put on trial for high treason against fathers and men. And also assuming we still have a society left at all!
    To sum it up , the crazy ideas of the feminist and the “Great Failed Social Engineering Experiment” shoved down our throats by the government thugs will all fail and be gone. And so will those who backed this foolishness.

  • amfortas

    “”Nobody would dispute that, in selecting a mate, women are more discerning than men.”

    Then call me ‘Nobody’, as I dispute it. What possible evidence do we have for this oh so common ego-stroke? Were it the case, let’s face it, they would chose someone that they could actually be suited to. True to their vows. But the evidence from 70% of married couples winding up in the divorce courts is that she didn’t chose well enough for any sort of long term relationship. Her ‘discernment’ is the same one she uses for choosing her mode of dress each day.

    “Picky”. “Transient”. “Indecisive”. “Discontent”. These are the more relevant words. ‘Discernment’? HoHoBloodyHo.

  • mdkn1

    All true boys.
    Have you ever visited a online dating site and seen the things these women require of there possible mates and having nothing to offer to a relationship except what is between there legs. The “generous” part really gets me.
    Here is an example.
    My Ideal Person:
    I wish he were broad-minded, well-educated, well-mannered, responsible, protective, (after all you are a man !), generous, someone attractive both physically and mentally. I am particularly sensitive of men who take care of themself physically, who like to keep fit and health-minded in food and cultural habits.
    Mind you that this is coming from a 46 year old woman with 2 small kids and a high school education. LMAO !!!

  • Free Man

    This seems to be a self-defeating strategy for women: endlessly whine to the man in their lives about his oh-so glaring shortcomings when his only vocalized complaint about her is that she complains about him.

    Should her complaining about him come to an end there would be peace once again. But alas, it is not to be.

    So the relationship continues – she is unhappy and her unhappiness makes him unhappy – then he either decides that he has had enough and he leaves or she elects to end the relationship because “I wasn’t happy.”

    Ignore the part about how she retains custody of their mutual children, often mistakenly refered to as ‘her children’, and also ignore that she gets to carry the badge of honor of ‘raising her children all by herself’, conveniently forgetting the burden placed upon the ex, as well as the greater society for: child support, alimony, section 8, welfare, food stamps, earned-income credit, etc.

    Let’s just focus on her self-defeating hypercritical behavior for a moment.

    What is it about so many women, that, while seeking the maximum potential for happiness (they refuse ‘to settle’) they make their greatest advocate miserable and become themselves miserable in the process?

  • http://www.false-accusers.com TheManOnTheStreet

    A man goes into a marriage with good intentions…

    A woman, on the otherhand, goes into a marriage with HER intentions….

    TMOTS

  • metalman

    I think women should just shorten their singles ads to this:

    “Looking for a man who acts like a man when I need a man, a woman when I need a woman, and who pays for everything.”

    The game is up, girls. Go back to your dadies.

  • conservativation

    This is the paradigm that must be changed if there is ever a chance to have a critical mass of women participate in any kind of marriage reform. This paradigm, the one that rationalizes how what is pointed out in this article is OK, it creates the entire lens through which society judges men and divorce.

  • Bambino

    After 40 odd years of gender “warfare,” how about some brave, new and exciting marketing slogans for matrimony, which has come to be known as “adversarial intimacy” these days in 21st Century socialist America…

    Shall we…?

    “Marriage: All her, ALL THE TIME!”

    “Marriage: Whose counting?”

    “I now kiss the GROOM…”

    “Modern Marriage=Adversarial Intimacy”






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