Sunday 24 January 2021

Originally broadcast on CHED radio - Date unknown

Girls this is leap year and the husband huntress can quit playing the waiting game. Herewith tips on how to be that one in a million who traps her man. Of course you want him to marry you because he loves you but if that fails you might land him at the altar with one of these hooks.


He can save on taxes. A singleton is taxed at a much higher rate than a married man. He'll get ahead faster in business.  The personnel manager prefers to promote the "settled" (or saddled) man, with a wife who wants things like split levels, second cars, and children whose teeth will need braces.  If he is in politics he'll get more votes with a wife at his side. With rare exceptions, the party machine favors a candidate with a wholesome family image. A landlord would rather rent to a potentially noisy, battling couple than to a single man who might throw wild parties. If there is anything worse than a single man as a tenant, it's a single woman.


He might have an heir. This is a real ego thing with men. This is the only way he can perpetuate his own precious image. Here you have a chance to offer him an immortality of sorts — something only a wife can do.


He might live longer. According to insurance companies the mortality rate among unmarried men aged 20 to 44 is DOUBLE the rate for married men. Married men DO live longer — or at least it SEEMS longer. He may avoid having a lonely old age. Not only will he find companionship, he'll have a nurse, housekeeper, cook, purchasing agent and accountant all for the price of a marriage license. And finally, HE MIGHT EVEN LIKE BEING MARRIED.

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