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• Monday, February 6, 2006 04:51 PM

  Marriage bashing

  why is it that certain men are all about the marriage bashing? Do they listen to that overwrought Tom Leykis radio program? I recognize many of his "rational" arguments in the men's angry screeds.

  I listen to that show and laugh at how he's got these guys snookered... and he's taking them all the way to the bank by encouraging them to make self-destructive choices in the name of self-preservation.

  I am married, happily married for 15 years. my husband is a wonderful man and father, we have a fulfilling sex life. I have never cheated on him, don't plan on ever doing so, and I don't believe he has on me either. We are best friends as well as lovers. I've seen him though illness, we've had two children together, and have been broke, though now we're doing well. We putter around the house, argue sometimes, make up too, but mostly we feel incredibly lucky that we have found each other.

  We have had hard tests as well, economic, emotional. I held his hand through the death of his father. He was primary wage earner so that I could stay home when the kids were young.

  I have no fear that he will dump me for a younger woman. i expect that we will retire together and take trips. Our life is rich.

  If he would have had the lousy attitude these guys do about being "taken" by gold-diggers and waving prenups in my face, it would have never worked out. And we both would have missed out.

  Life is good.

  —happily married
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