Why Men are Afraid to Commit

Ladies you’ve all heard the stereotype about men avoiding marriage like the plague.  Well know you can know what’s behind this great fear of marriage…

A recent poll of 1533 heterosexual men was conducted as research for a book aiming to give women an understanding of why many smart, successful men opt to stay single.  Here’s what they found out…

- Men are 10 times more afraid of marrying the wrong person than never getting married at all!

- The poll showed that while in 1980 only 6% of men in their early 40’s were never married now that number is 17%

- The poll found that there are three types of bachelors:

• 8% who never want to marry
• 62% who want to marry but half of them are are holding out for perfection
• 30% are on the fence about marriage

- As for having kids the bachelors said:

• 4 of 10 did not want to be a father
• 3 of 10 want to be a father
• the rest were undecided

Finally, 72% said they were’nt afraid of marriage but half of them said that the situation that scared them most was marrying the wrong person

In my opinion, while this may result in a lot of men not popping the question for a long time if ever, this may help improve the divorce statistics in the future.  As frustrating as it may seem I’d rather be married to a man that is sure before he commits than finding out he wasn’t sure later!

Your thoughts?

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