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Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

August 6, 2016

Clint Eastwood: Advice On Affairs Of The Heart

Clint Eastwood usually doesn't have much to say, but when he does, people talk about it. Clint and his son, Scott Eastwood, both agreed to be interviewed by Esquire magazine and neither one pulls any punches about their likes and dislikes.

Most have already read something about Mr. Eastwood's lack of regard for the "pussy generation" that he voiced in his interview with Esquire magazine. He simply has no use for politically correct speech and people who are easily offended.

But Clint also revealed his views on how a rich and famous movie star/director should manage his love life:
ESQ: Collecting wives is an expensive hobby.

Clint: Yeah, cut out the middleman. Just find somebody you hate and buy 'em a house.

Scott: I gotta write that down.

Clint: When you call your lawyer and you tell 'em, you know, "I'm gonna get married to this girl" and there's a long pause on the other end of the line, you know damn well they're thinking, "How are we gonna set this up, and then how are we gonna dissolve this?"
This just cracked me up. Here's a guy who has lived a full life.

April 19, 2015

Love And Marriage

Remember the 1955 song "Love and Marriage?" It was written by Sammy Cahn and sung by Frank Sinatra. I remember this ditty from radio and television, it was very popular.

Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other

Love and marriage, love and marriage
It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary

No more.

Men have fled the institution of marriage and now a work by a US researcher, Dr Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist at the University of Tennessee and author of "Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood And The American Dream" sheds some welcome light on this trend.
‘Ultimately, men know there’s a good chance they’ll lose their friends, their respect, their space, their sex life, their money and — if it all goes wrong — their family...'

‘They don’t want to enter into a legal contract with someone who could effectively take half their savings, pension and property when the honeymoon period is over.

‘Men aren’t wimping out by staying unmarried or being commitment phobes. They’re being smart.’
Story here.

The following is from her book blurb on Amazon:
... men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash.

Dr. Smith also has a blog.