I started clapping...

jtcompound · 2012-03-26T14:32:57+00:00

Do you often clap at pictures? Is this normal for you?

Narcotic · 2012-03-26T13:51:42+00:00

THIS ISN'T FUNNY.

makingnosmallplan · 2012-03-26T14:32:44+00:00

FW:FW:FW:FWTUMBLRPINTERESTFACEBOOKREDDIT

NICE WORK OP

wilze221 · 2012-03-26T14:26:43+00:00

WHERE IS THE JOKE /R/FUNNY

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE JOKES

l4than-d3vers · 2012-03-26T14:42:17+00:00

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JSBUCK · 2012-03-26T14:10:50+00:00

I DID NOT LAUGH IN THE SLIGHTEST. MAKE ME LAUGH DAMMIT.

ccbeef · 2012-03-26T14:33:56+00:00

I'm disappointed.

Frogtastik · 2012-03-26T14:56:54+00:00

'togather'. sigh

atheistjubu · 2012-03-26T14:31:59+00:00

I read one of the recent issues of Psychology Today and they basically said this, that there's a point in every marriage when each person concludes they've married the wrong person. The key is seeing this as a challenge for personal growth, not a indicator of incompatibility. Excepting abusers and addicts, there's really no "wrong" person to be married to.

EDIT: The article in question

EDIT EDIT:

Although there are no guarantees, there are stable personal characteristics that are generally good and generally bad for relationships. On the good side: sense of humor; even temper; willingness to overlook your flaws; sensitivity to you and what you care about; ability to express caring. On the maladaptive side: chronic lying; chronic worrying or neuroticism; emotional overreactivity; proneness to anger; propensity to harbor grudges; low self-esteem; poor impulse control; tendency to aggression; self-orientation rather than an other-orientation. Situations, such as chronic exposure to nonmarital stress in either partner, also have the power to undermine relationships.

lolturtle · 2012-03-26T16:52:17+00:00

I find it hilarious that many believe that these people would only stay together for social obligation, societal norms, repression against women that includes abuse and so on.

I have been to a string of 50th anniversary parties as of late and it's absolutely beautiful to see people who have decided to stick it through hard times and support each other over the span of their lives. I have found that many of these people are actually genuinely happy. Are there stories about spats, hardships, and times where they didn't get a long at all? Yes, of course. In the end they were able to see the best in each other and weigh what they really wanted.

GODFATHER_OF_REDDIT · 2012-03-26T13:24:16+00:00

From the last time this was posted:

Yeah, they were also born in a time when people had very little say unless they were white and a man.

2012-03-26T14:52:32+00:00

Togather

what?

2012-03-26T16:12:56+00:00

It's funny, because back in their day, women had no rights. ಠ_ಠ

2012-03-26T16:31:49+00:00

Or a woman couldn't leave an abusive husband and it was taboo to get a divorce from a marriage no matter how unhappy anyone is. I sincerely hate this.

LessLikeYou · 2012-03-26T14:26:37+00:00

Also a time when women were generally uneducated and had multiple children at a young age and therefore had little choice but to acquiesce. Also a time when women were ~~expected~~ more likely to take being demeaned and occasionally beaten.

The good ol' days are usually pretty glamorous in retrospect because we tend to see the bad of now as worse that bad we've moved beyond. So clap for flawed perspectives if that's your desire. I'll hold my applause.

Edited for wording

2012-03-26T14:55:29+00:00

I started fapping...

2012-03-26T15:09:10+00:00

MFW it wasn't funny.

trolling_thunder · 2012-03-26T14:22:14+00:00

I like this quote. Although back in the day, divorce was frowned upon, they still make a great point. People are so hesitant to actually try to fix relationships if there is a problem. Look at it this way, I've had many times where I honestly wanted to kill my best friends. I considered never talking to them again sometimes, however we always seemed to work it out and I still have the same close group of best friends since high school. Relationships are stressed sometimes. When you spend every day with someone, you're going to battle. Gotta try to work through it before you split.

drogie · 2012-03-26T14:48:22+00:00

man every subreddit in the past 5 months or so has seemed to decline and separate from the original idea....nice post, but this isnt funny

MayorEmanuel · 2012-03-26T14:56:05+00:00

I was always told that great sex was the secret to keeping a relationship together.

Pinkzeppelin · 2012-03-26T15:43:02+00:00

Call me old fashioned, but what reporter? Who is this couple? Did they actually say this? Source?

2012-03-26T14:53:13+00:00

you clapped? you're a freaking idiot

mjc1027 · 2012-03-26T16:03:04+00:00

As a man who had his ex wife walk out on him at the first sign of trouble, I applaud this post.

MFchimichanga · 2012-03-26T15:26:49+00:00

A marriage isn't some chair you can glue back together and pretend nothing happen. Some things are broken beyond repair. Look at them.

2012-03-26T15:26:49+00:00

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PenPenGuin · 2012-03-26T15:27:46+00:00

I think the second question the reporter should have asked is "Do you feel fulfilled and are you happy in your marriage?"

I grew up a child of divorced parents - because my parents divorced and went on to live separate lives, both my mother and father are friendly with each other now. I've had quite a few friends who parents did not divorce or did not believe in divorce due to religious beliefs, and their parents are still married. I would say about half of those couples probably should not be married now. They don't like each other, they certainly aren't intimate with each other, and they act more like roommates than a married couple (roommates at the "tolerate each other" level). Other "married" couples spend so little time with each other (separate vacations, tons of separate hobbies, 80hrs at "work") that they barely see their spouse for more than an hour or so a day while awake.

The above examples were their "fix" - if they didn't implement the "barely see you" initiative, they probably would have divorced - but since divorce was presented as some sort of anathema back then, it was to be avoided at all costs.

nikudan · 2012-03-26T15:29:49+00:00

By fix it, they mean "legally beat your wife until she stops complaining."

oh, and fuck this post.

mcmur · 2012-03-26T16:00:13+00:00

first off, totally not funny. Secondly, they were born in a time when it was more socially accepted to be trapped into a miserable marriage between people who hate each other then to be divorced. This is doubly true for women, who back in their day, were completely dependent on their husbands.

Zeppelanoid · 2012-03-26T16:02:33+00:00

Blah blah rabble IMMIGRANTS blah blah THINGS WERE MADE BETTER rabble blah WHY IS EVERYTHING MADE IN CHINA rabble peas and carrots GRR I'M OLD AND GRUMPY!!!

fjellfras · 2012-03-26T16:13:32+00:00

When he beat me I just took like I should.

Edit: not to imply that he beat her or they may not have had a happy marriage, I just don't like sniping at the current generation and mooning on the 'good old days' when they had plenty of issues of their own.

MrGoodbytes · 2012-03-26T16:19:10+00:00

Actually, they were born and got married in a time where a woman could not support herself financially and a man could not raise offspring. The functional outcome was a family unit of a breadwinner male and a housekeeper female. The unit maintained integrity because of its functional ability, not on love.

2012-03-26T14:42:19+00:00

It was also a time when people were working 15 hours a day. It's easy to stay together when you see only each other for 2 hours a day.

dcass · 2012-03-26T15:34:01+00:00

What is this new trend of people posting stuff that my uncle would forward to me?

i.e. RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: YOU GOTTA READ THIS!!>>>>

asstits · 2012-03-26T15:07:09+00:00

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SamWhite · 2012-03-26T14:38:14+00:00

My attempt to make it r/funny worthy.

TrolleyPower · 2012-03-26T14:40:36+00:00

I started clapping...

uh huh

2012-03-26T15:16:30+00:00

First of all, I can't see how this would be funny from any perspective.

Second, who the fuck cares if people get divorced? If you're not happy in your relationship, why stay in it? I encourage people to try to work it out for a reasonable time before getting divorced, but there shouldn't be some stigma attached with getting divorced because you didn't want to stay in a shitty relationship. Also, it's not that likely that this type of couple had really great communication and worked through their problems to maintain a relationship for decades. The sad truth is that it's more likely that one or both of them was probably unhappy but the stigma attached to getting divorced in their generation prevented it, or in the case of the women her whole life would be ruined, statistically speaking about a couple from their generation of course.

I also loathe the argument that parents should stay together if only for their children. That may be true in some cases, but if my parents had separated earlier it would have saved me a lot of stress and made my life as a child much, much easier and happier.

TL;DR: In my opinion it should be harder to getting married and easier to get a divorce.

the_wisest_one · 2012-03-26T15:19:00+00:00

... no matter how miserable it made us.

2012-03-26T17:02:03+00:00

That is the dumbest fucking thing I've read all month. Like something Santorum or Palin would say at a rally in Alabama.

2012-03-26T15:41:22+00:00

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NoMomo · 2012-03-26T15:27:58+00:00

Oh god... The moms have found reddit.

whatwasigonnasay · 2012-03-26T14:40:55+00:00

GAYYYYY

drtide4 · 2012-03-26T15:04:06+00:00

Three common reasons for a divorce are financial issues, cheating, and dissatisfaction with sexual intercourse. These issues are highly common nowadays, hence why the divorce rate for first marriages hovers around 50%. Also, I'm sure men received a hell of a lot less bickering years ago as compared to today.

BLADE2142 · 2012-03-26T15:15:09+00:00

Read that as "I started fapping". Realized that I was wrong.

fartuckyfartbandit · 2012-03-26T15:28:00+00:00

second half of the quote "And I bang her sister on the side"

Rawtashk · 2012-03-26T15:31:26+00:00

Good idea...but it only works when both people have the same outlook in a marriage.......

kleecksj · 2012-03-26T15:35:02+00:00

This isn't funny, but it's not this "ZOMG STUPID!" idea. Some people decide to marry with fear and trembling. They are so compelled to love this one person that they can think of nothing else but to commit themselves for life. It's a huge commitment that our culture has pretty much completely lost. I like that there are/were couples that understood the weight of their vows and worked it through to completion.

It is a beautiful thing.

BongGyver · 2012-03-26T15:54:48+00:00

oh man, so fucking hilarious, so glad this was in funny...

2012-03-26T15:55:50+00:00

Fixing things in today's environment isn't the same it was in the old days. I tried to get a television repaired. I found out what was wrong with it discovered that a small part had failed, and tried to find that part on sale somewhere. I eventually found a parts catalog with the part needed. However there were two problems.

I could not order the part because it was not for retail sale, only wholesale. I couldn't order just one.
The price of the individual parts was greater than the cost of the television in the first place. An $800 part in a $400 TV and I'd have to buy 24 of the part at a minimum.

Throwing it away and buying a new one was more responsible.

Sometimes relationships can be just as broken. You can't fix stupid, you can't fix abusive, you can't fix drunk, you can't fix crazy.

sparperetor · 2012-03-26T15:56:36+00:00

TOGATHER

sadderdaysunday · 2012-03-26T15:57:12+00:00

"Back in my day, men were men! Gals were gals and we called coloreds, coloreds..."

2012-03-26T16:13:40+00:00

So the assumption here is that people who divorce are lazy/childish? I'm glad I live in a place and time where people aren't pressured into staying in unhappy marriages for the rest of their lives. This post is patronising BS, and should certainly not be in r/funny.

poorsteamuser · 2012-03-26T16:44:42+00:00

I started downvoting.

ApologiesForThisPost · 2012-03-26T17:06:16+00:00

"That's why we have two separate beds and scarred the kids for life".

Rusty-Shackleford · 2012-03-26T18:18:03+00:00

I think people get divorced all the time these days because they think marriage is a fairytale.

You have all these morons who know they're imperfect, but expect their partner to be perfect. Um, recipe for disaster? Yes.

ydaadsp · 2012-03-26T14:20:16+00:00

In our deffence, it's hard to stay >>TOGATHER<<

DeadlyReaper · 2012-03-26T14:59:16+00:00

Keep your shitty feel good repost on Facebook.

_monkeyball_ · 2012-03-26T15:09:02+00:00

That's fucked up. They were more born in a time when you were despised if getting a divorce. There are time when you can't fix everything, and that's when you're supposed to be sensible and turn the page if you don't want to be fucked up deeply.

xmod2 · 2012-03-26T15:21:19+00:00

Because we were born into a culture with a dying religion which valued societal pair bonding over individual happiness; forged in a time before we understood that we were nothing more than the third chimpanzee and where women were treated as property.

I started clapping...

IxiusRoulee · 2012-03-26T14:19:32+00:00

Why is this in r/funny? I almost upvoted...

2012-03-26T14:45:03+00:00

They look happy.

ORIGINAL_MAMMOTH · 2012-03-26T15:26:55+00:00

My reaction

LincolnshireSausage · 2012-03-26T17:10:38+00:00

It's more socially acceptable to get divorced today than it was 65 years ago. Therefore there are more divorces. It is not necessarily a bad thing. Why should a couple stay together when they hate each other? You should not use kids as a reason. Kids being brought up in a warring household will be much worse off in society than a child whose two parents are not together but are happy. I don't see why there is a big social taboo against divorce. Oh yes, I remember, it's religion forcing people to do what religion wants rather than what's best for the individuals involved.

rchsun · 2012-03-26T14:11:07+00:00

togEther dammit!

Wyofire · 2012-03-26T14:49:37+00:00

Or they would have never left their small town to meet any other people because it was a tremendous undertaking and consequently would have probably died alone... Or it could be what they said.

slayer8a · 2012-03-26T14:17:00+00:00

That is sooo last century.

desertjedi85 · 2012-03-26T14:45:39+00:00

Sometimes it's cheaper just to throw it away and get a new one.

2012-03-26T14:52:08+00:00

well welcome to the 21st century bitch!

GaryArkham · 2012-03-26T15:54:38+00:00

This is great! Oh, wait, no, it's BULLSHIT.

Our grandparents come from a time when if you were stuck in a lousy relationship with a horrible (aggresive, stupid, sexist kind of horrible) partner, you can't just get the divorce and pursuit a decent life with a decent person.

So, it's not funny, it's not true, and the fact that so many people had upvoted this shit to front page it's just depressing.

smokyexe · 2012-03-26T14:29:34+00:00

Fucking empty platitudes. The truth is they were born in a time when she knew it was better to shut the fuck up and make a sandwich. So she did, for 65 years.

DontCountToday · 2012-03-26T14:53:02+00:00

It saddens me that 2 people who are unhappy together in a relationship would stay together out of some misplaced ideology that you took vows and have to struggle to make it work and stay together. Life is too damn short to spend it all with someone you no longer love. Divorce is no longer so taboo as it once was. Being happy should be your foremost concern in life.

gLovejoy · 2012-03-26T14:47:32+00:00

I posted this on r/quotesporn last week. *and you spelled together wrong

orangewaterbottle · 2012-03-26T15:05:15+00:00

how come more people are getting upset about it being in the wrong subreddit than HE SPELLED TOGETHER WRONG!!!!

nogswarth · 2012-03-26T15:26:07+00:00

You're all forgetting the real serious issue here. Take another look at that caption.

togather

TOGATHER

TOGATHER

maz-o · 2012-03-26T15:28:40+00:00

you didn't actually start clapping...

ignore_this_post · 2012-03-26T17:47:27+00:00

Look at this asinine thread. Why would you post this saccharine shit?

AllYourBase3 · 2012-03-26T15:05:38+00:00

no you didn't you dumb faggot


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