{"id":2918,"date":"2010-09-08T03:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2010-09-07T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:08:03","slug":"marriages-in-tennessee-are-down-30-over-the-last-10-years-why-that-ought-to-scare-you-to-death-and-what-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/marriages-in-tennessee-are-down-30-over-the-last-10-years-why-that-ought-to-scare-you-to-death-and-what-you-can-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriages in Tennessee are Down 30% Over the Last 10 Years: Why That Ought to Scare You to Death and What You Can Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last week an article came out in the Tennessean that reported that marriages in Tennessee are down 30%<\/strong> over the last 10 years.\u00a0 They are similarly down in other southern states. And remember these are states that have supposedly been designated as \u201cThe Bible Belt,\u201d as though somehow mentioning the word \u201cBible\u201d makes people automatically more moral; more importantly, more efficient at relationships.<\/p>\n

The gist of the article was that people are opting to live together without marriage,<\/strong><\/em> even to have children and raise them outside the confines of marriage.<\/p>\n

This is an alarming statistic.\u00a0 It a better predictor of America\u2019s future than any other thing I know.\u00a0 The truth of the matter is, marriage means something<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It is a covenant that is ratified and rectified by civil authority.\u00a0 You have to get a license.\u00a0 The ceremony has to be officiated and witnessed by duly recognized officiants.<\/p>\n

People say all the time, \u201cWhat does a piece of paper matter?\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s for another day, but let me just say, \u201cIt matters.\u00a0 A lot.\u201d\u00a0 Most of the important commitments we make in our life are ratified by signatures.\u00a0 And yet some people say that if your heart\u2019s not in it, why get married?\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole point, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Your heart\u2019s not in it when you live together.\u00a0 What you\u2019re saying is this, \u201cI\u2019m trying you on and if you don\u2019t live up to my standards, I\u2019m going to walk away and leave you with all the responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who are the biggest losers in this transaction? Women<\/em>.<\/strong> Women who have been made to feel cheap, unwanted, and unable to hold the heart of a man.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s one way to stop this kind of madness that\u2019s going to lead to the crumbling of our society if it\u2019s not stopped.\u00a0 How do we stop it you say?\u00a0 Here it is.\u00a0 Women in America need to rise up and say \u201cno\u201d to wimpy men who only want one thing: sex.<\/strong> Sex on demand, sex the way they want it, and sex when they want it.\u00a0 And when they\u2019re done, and they will be, they walk away leaving her with the children, the mortgage, the debt, and the responsibility.\u00a0 Ladies, you can stop men from behaving badly today by staying out of bed with these men who are not worthy of you.<\/p>\n

Determine what you\u2019re worth.\u00a0 Hold out for a good man-up man<\/strong>; a man with a job, with prospects, and a future; a man who will be willing to woo, wow, and win your heart, and convince you that after you sign that piece of paper and stand at the altar, the good times have just begun.\u00a0 A man who will convince you that \u201cI do\u201d doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s done.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week an article came out in the Tennessean that reported that marriages in Tennessee are down 30% over the last 10 years.\u00a0 They are similarly down in other southern states. And remember these are states that have supposedly been designated as \u201cThe Bible Belt,\u201d as though somehow mentioning the word \u201cBible\u201d makes people automatically … Continue reading “Marriages in Tennessee are Down 30% Over the Last 10 Years: Why That Ought to Scare You to Death and What You Can Do About It”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}