lol coz I have a magic tongue [quote=“Andrewgen_Receptors, post:241, topic:286305, full:true”]
Curious, did your girlfriend also go without sex for 6 months?
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As someone who is currently doing this as a broke college student, I’m telling you, it’s not that bad.
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What about it? That everyone should have the same outcome in life?
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The only reason I can imagine doing tren is to get MORE sex.
Maybe you should untie her.
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Like reconciling the idea of people born in to money not breeding continued success with:
You may not have a stance on social equity, but I’m curious if your belief that being born “privileged” leads to ruin squares with distribution of privilege in the spirit of equity given your belief that being born poor creates sharp teeth.
Curious if creating more poor communities would actually be more helpful in driving success in marginalized groups if so?
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Define wealth.
Lets say, for the sake of round numbers, you make $100,000/year.
In 10 years, thats $1million.
In 20 years,…etc. and thats not considering the power of compound interest.
Now how does the cost of raising a child compare?
I have probably been married longer than many here. The first 3-4 years were a bedroom challenge. I will call it, my fault. Then, on a weekend get away I discovered what made her happy, click if you will.
Since, the bedroom has been readily available. Which has been great because my wife has always looked fit and athletic. To the point, after twins, babies four and five total, the ladies at church disliked her, jealous. How does she do it, one unfriendly woman asked me one day. I asked her: Are you ready to skip a lot of rope? Lift weights?
May I suggest, always see to it that your partner clicks first. Or try. sometimes you click together. Your partner will then surprise you. Go places, hotel sex is better than at home love. Be adventurous. There is something to be said about being fit, having muscle. Turn off the video games and ESPN. Get the yard work done, take the trash out. The vacuum? Figure out how it works.
On the question, would I doink me? If I paid myself enough.
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Net or gross?
It doesn’t matter. Its just for illustrative purposes.
It doesn’t matter? That sounds like communism.
Just for fun, with a four year old turning five next week, I estimate she costs about $18-$23k per year. We have her in daycare which is about $12k of that and ends with kindergarten next year.
The remaining amount is roughly her share in groceries, activities (taekwondo, dance and soon piano), clothes and random “cost of admission” for things like movies, zoos et cetera.
FWIW, as I’m technically self-employed, I pay for her various insurance premiums as we’ll, but most parents would have her covered free or at a nominal cost through employer plans.
We do plan to pay for college and are on the fence about private school, but these are both preferences.
So about $1,500 - $1,900 per month, and assuming we go to public school, this drops to more like $500-$900 per month next year when kindergarten starts.
This includes taekwondo and dance. I suspect these will be fairly fixed costs as she grows. Interests may change to another sport or activity and the money will simply carry over to support it. She will eat more as she grows but probably a financially nominal amount.
Backing out activities i could easily be under $500 per month and still include zoo trips, movies, museums et cetera.
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Should the man or the woman be the prize, in a relationship?
Explain your answer.
Why can’t they be each other’s prize?
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in almost every single relationship, one partner puts in more effort than the other.
They could be exactly 50/50 but I find this unlikely.
If one HAD to be the prize, who should it be?
I guess I need you to define what you mean by a “prize”? Just the one who puts in more effort?
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In the days of old, one would have to put in effort to win a prize.
The prize being the partner that doesn’t have to put in as much effort (AKA the one who is more likely to leave).
How are you determining this? How is this even measured?
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Because most relationships fail…