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There’s (almost) nothing worse than a bad marriage -when you’re in it, itching to get out. People stay in bad marriages because 1. they stick to their vows. 2. for the kids, and 3. fear.There’s fear of loneliness, I don’t understand the fear,and I’ll tell you from experience that as bad as loneliness is, it beats being miserable.

Throughout the ages, men have been trying to unlock the mystery as to why their wives who accepted them as they were before they got married, subtly and with determination began the quest to change their behaviour and life-style once their vows were exchanged.

Finally, the riddle was solved. A social-scientist arrived at a simple and logical conclusion.

When the bride, accompanied by her father, starts to walk slowly down the long aisle, she sees the altar at the end and hears the choir singing a hymn. Walking down the aisle, the conditioning process where the brain absorbs these three stimuli: Aisle, Altar, Hymn, begins.

She becomes mesmerized as she continually reinforces these perceptions:

Aisle, Altar, Hymn……
Aisle, Altar, Hymn……
Aisle, Altar, Hymn…… .

And finally, as she stops beside the groom, the conditioning process is completed. She looks up at him lovingly, smiling sweetly and thinks ‘I’ll alter him’.

The bride said she wanted three children, while the young husband said two would be enough for him.

They discussed this discrepancy for a few minutes until the husband thought he'd put an end to things by saying boldly,

"After our second child, I'll just have a vasectomy."

Without a moments hesitation, the bride retorted, "Well, I hope you'll love the third one just as if it's your own."

Thought for today: I still miss my "EX" but my aim is improving.