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Quite simply put the following are true, more often than not:
1. Women prefer to marry men who make more money than they do.
2. Women marry for security 1st and love a distant 2nd.
3. Marriage benefits women more than men.
4. Sex is better before you are married since most women feel that since they have "wrangled a man" they don't need to be as much of an active participant any more.
5. Most women use sex, children and money as a weapon since they are acutely aware that the family law court system is predisposed toward their favor.
6. Most women crow for equality but are unwilling to make those sacrifices necessary for such an event to occur.
7. There is no such thing as a "superwoman" who is a career person and a mother since the children are typically raised in a latchkey daycare setting or by nannies while the mother takes credit for how well they turned out or blames their father for how poorly they turned out.
8. Most women default on child support payments whereas most men pay their child support.
I could go on but the issues are very simple. There is no incentive for a man to marry unless you intend to have children and, in that event, it is wise to enter into a prenuptial agreement regardless of your income and to obtain the agreement no less than six months prior to marriage and to videotape it to validate that all parties were willing participants. If, as a man, you wish to give up more than 1/2 your assets when divorced and pay alimony then by all means don't do a prenuptial agreement. If a woman truly loves you she will enter into a prenuptial agreement, obviously in the interest of equality of the sexes and fairness, of course (facetious sigh here). In such an agreement you may put weight clauses, how many times per week you have sex, asset distribution, philandering clauses, etc. Over 50% of all 1st marriages fail and women file in over 75% of those divorces. Over 65% of all 2nd marriages fail. Statistics don't lie and marriage, by definition, is the formation of a corporation whose assest distribution upon dissolution is enforceable by the state, unlike any other company. You are forming a business. Treat it as such. Bear in mind that most women do treat it as a business. Also remember, if the State is willing to give joint custody of the children to a woman who murdered her husband (the children's father) in a premeditated attack and who received 20 years in prison for such an attack, anything is possible and likely to happen to a man's disadvantage (See Dr. Clara Harris in Texas who ran over her husband 3-4 times).
