<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TheStudent:<BR><B>Supposedly, married women (per capita) are more depressed than single women. The reverse is true for men. According to Harley, 75% of divorces are initiated by women. Obviously, women aren't getting the same benefits out of marriage as men are, for whatever reason. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Well, I frankly think that women are raised to think of marriage as the moment when the Saturn V boosters finally send their life into deliriously happy orbit. If not, then what are all those bridal magazines about?<P>Meanwhile, men are looking at it as a lifetime supply of poon with an agreeable woman in return for splitting a paycheck. There are no magazines called <I><B>Groom</B></I>. <P>Clearly there is a mismatch in expectations, no matter how much premarital counseling is employed as a means to try to dispel it. Depression is said by some to be the measure of your awareness of where you <I>are</I> in life versus where you think you <I>should be</I>. Is it any wonder women are depressed?<P>The closest thing to a relationship that men ever get into based on reading a magazine is buying a car based on <I>Road & Track</I> reviews. They will, eventually, dispose of that car one way or another for one reason or another; and nobody will say a word about it except perhaps "Wow! Like your new car!" At worst "glad you got rid of that wallet-draining Corvette--it was a stupid idea to have bought that thing in the first place."<P>The bride is another story...<P>