Tarrant
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Yeah, all the cab companies here are teaming up and pressuring the city to do the same thing pretty much.
Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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Its really annoying when people use regulation to keep competition and a better business model out. If you require regulation for your job to stay in tact that job shouldn't exist.
To be fair, when the cab companies face regulation and Uber doesn't that isn't a level playing field.
Cad
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Cab companies generally only face regulation of their own creation in order to lock out competitors.
Sort of like how the car dealerships caused all the fuss about Tesla selling directly to customers. Since now you basically walk into a car dealership already knowing what you want they don't really have a big purpose to exist. So they'll lobby to stay in business.
Soygen
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Yup. Car dealerships are an archaic remnant of the pre-internet days. Unfortunately, they grew so large and their lobby is massive, so they will now stifle as much innovation as possible, to remain relevant. I wonder if car manufacturers are working to ditch the dealership system.
Noodleface
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I thought about doing Uber in my town because they were offering $1500/week for the first month or something. My town told them to get fucked.
McCheese
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This thread has become even more terrifying than it already was for a single person. For those of you with depressed/crazy wives, was there any indication that they would turn out this way? Obviously, if you had known before then you might not have gotten married, but I am curious if, in hindsight, there were some warning signs that you might not have recognized at the time. It is scary to think that a seemingly great girl could flip after a few years of marriage and turn life into a nightmare.
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Soygen
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This.
Some people are just dumb as fuck in the early parts of a relationship and completely ignore all kinds of flaws because they're "in love". I'm not saying this about any particular person, but I've seen plenty of friends end up in terrible relationships and they acted like their partners suddenly changed, meanwhile the rest of us are all thinking, "No, they were always psycho!"
For how much males like to pride themselves on being able to divorce logic from emotion when pussy is on the line that entire mantra gets thrown out the window. If all your friends are saying this seems like a bad match and a bad idea to marry a girl possibly give the relationship should true thought. Like Soy is saying we're not living the day-to-day with anyone in this thread to really and truly know but I have a hard time believing it was just one day flips get switched with people.
Eomer
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Most of my friends are in their early to mid 30's, and most got married in their late 20's to early 30's. So for the earliest adopters, they're coming up on 10 years of marriage now. The vast majority of my friend's marriages are happy and healthy, backing up the statistics that divorce rates for well educated, middle/upper class people are nowhere near 50%. Unfortunately several marriages have ended in divorce. A couple after only a few years, and one in particular that was one of those high school sweetheart relationships that made it through the first 6-7 years of marriage (even though they were highschool sweethearts, they didn't marry until their mid to late 20's), a kid and everything before falling apart. In all of the cases of divorce, the dudes married crazy bitches. They were always unstable, whether the guy realized it or not.
Phazael
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The powers of the camel toed beast are many and fearsome, especially on the desperate. That applies to both men and women, really. If you are alone in your life, your mind (and hormones) will make you gloss over shit that should send you packing.
I still think Tarrant is lying to himself on certain levels. I hope her parents are in his camp, because they are his best shot at containing the nuclear fallout from her crazy when he serves the papers.
I still think Tarrant is lying to himself on certain levels. I hope her parents are in his camp, because they are his best shot at containing the nuclear fallout from her crazy when he serves the papers.
Yep this is something people tend to forget. Guys can be emotionally distant, they can lose affection, they can stop trying. For as much as guys like to say "Bitch turned crazy!" after the marriage maybe she'll say "Asshole turned lazy!" after their marriage. But the perspective we get on this forum is largely male biased some sometimes the truth gets lost in the weeds of "Bitches be crazy."
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You have to work at that shit. Once you get married, most people get complacent. They think, all right now Im married, job is done. She/he will love me forever because we are now married, in a contract for life. Then the kids come, the monotony of day to day life... Pretty soon youre living not like a married couple but a couple of room mates. I went through this shit. I took all that crap for granted. My gaming addictions, porn, fuck it was easier to rub one out than go through trying to get some from the wifey. Shit I remember in the first couple of years of marriage and my EQ addiction back in 2000, the wife would come into the gaming room naked, dancing for me and shit, and I blew her off. Thinking back how fucking silly that shit was. I was not a husband, but another child for her to take care of. I was definitely not meeting her physical and emotional needs. I fucking put on 50lbs, ate like shit, looked like shit, and then when I wanted some she blew me off which built animosity between us both. We basically had sex like twice a month.
I dint know at the time, nor did I fucking care what she did. I came home, made dinner, played with the kids for a while, took care of shit, and once they were in bed, off to the gaming room I went. And then she started chatting up some dude on the phone. This was about 2006ish. We had a huge ass blowout at that time, and she trickled truth me about this dude she was chatting up. Thank god he lived in another state because I know she would of fucked him if he was local. I was done at that point. Fuck was I angry. I wanted nothing to do with her at this point and contemplating divorce. But at that time, I did a lot of soul searching, looking deep inside. And I realized, finally what a jack ass I was. I think she realized I was done too, so she did a bit of changing as well.
I lost weight, started to go out with buds, quit the gaming, quit the porn, all that shit. Started to lift weights, and things slowly started to turn around. It was a slow process but now we are closer than ever. We actually spend time together, every night. We have sex at least 4 times a week, hot passionate sex that resembles sex we had when we were dating, but even rougher because I know now what she likes.
The point is that this shit takes work. Yeah, blah blah, you heard it before, but you can get stuck in a rut of every day bullshit and start taking each other for granted.
I dint know at the time, nor did I fucking care what she did. I came home, made dinner, played with the kids for a while, took care of shit, and once they were in bed, off to the gaming room I went. And then she started chatting up some dude on the phone. This was about 2006ish. We had a huge ass blowout at that time, and she trickled truth me about this dude she was chatting up. Thank god he lived in another state because I know she would of fucked him if he was local. I was done at that point. Fuck was I angry. I wanted nothing to do with her at this point and contemplating divorce. But at that time, I did a lot of soul searching, looking deep inside. And I realized, finally what a jack ass I was. I think she realized I was done too, so she did a bit of changing as well.
I lost weight, started to go out with buds, quit the gaming, quit the porn, all that shit. Started to lift weights, and things slowly started to turn around. It was a slow process but now we are closer than ever. We actually spend time together, every night. We have sex at least 4 times a week, hot passionate sex that resembles sex we had when we were dating, but even rougher because I know now what she likes.
The point is that this shit takes work. Yeah, blah blah, you heard it before, but you can get stuck in a rut of every day bullshit and start taking each other for granted.