Just In Case?

I might have had in the dim distant past but I can't remember!!

What a stupid article.

I think men are more likely to do that. I have had friends who are supposedly on short breaks from their spouses, only to find that another woman has been around in their absence. In my own case, when I left ex, it only took him three weeks to move an 'old friend' into our house. I think women are more careful about who they let into their children's lives.

What ...?! I can barely cope with No. 1 husband!

I agree with Jane - I'm often amazed at the speed with which men "replace". Generalisation, I know.

Slightly off topic ... I fleetingly noticed in one of the articles (haven't read them all, or the thread on here, because too upsetting) that Lynda Bellingham has said that as happy as her marriage is and as much as she loves her husband, she will be making sure that her children inherit from her in posterity and that their inheritance can't be touched by a new wife who has her own ideas about what happens to the money. In other words, she was sorting out a watertight will. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the children from a first marriage cut out by a new love and new family.

There is no way on this earth I would ever want/need another man.

Firstly I have been married three times already. Quite enough thank you.
Secondly I love the one I have too much to want to replace him.

Seems incredible to me. I find it very hard to believe. Surely OnePoll's question must have been somehow loaded?

When life went through a phase when I knew quite a number of people whose marriages were ending in divorce. I commented to a friend that having got used to DH and all his irritating little ways I really couldn't be bothered to swap him for another model that meant that I would have to get used to a different set of irritating little ways.

I have never had reason to think otherwise and as for having a possible substitute waiting in the wings.......................

Hollydaze you ask 'Also - how can they know that 'more than half of all wives' are doing it? Wouldn't they have to actually ask all wives first?'

The answer is no, they do not. Without going into the depths of statistics it is possible to calculate a sample size that, if the sample is randomly selected, you can calculate with what degree of accuracy any sample of that size will produce the more or less the same result and will be representative of the whole population. I still have, from my market research day a little wheel that told me the size sample I needed for a total population I specified and the degree of accuracy I would accept. It is surprising how accurate quite a small sample can be.

Having said this a lot of the polls carried out on subjects like this are not based on properly drawn up samples, the wording of their questionnaires is dubious and the final results, when they get into the hands of journalists working for the popular papers can be misreported and distorted to get a good story and headline.

It is the kind of thing that people have probably never thought about, and then when they are asked the question by one of these polls, they give a cheeky answer.

It is, of course, a lot easier to get a man if you already have one, and we all probably know men who (if we found ourselves in the position of needing a new one badly enough) would be happy to strep into the vacancy. Don't we? That is not the same as havbing a spare tucked away ready for use!

There's an old flame I might fan into life if push came to shove.

It is, of course, a lot easier to get a man if you already have one,

A bit like finding a new job Elegran

IMO. A man in the hand is worth two in the bush !

gillybob That - your last sentence - is undoubtedly the wickedest pun I have ever seen on Gransnet.

gillybob

Thank you for explaining that FlicketyB - does behaviour change from region to region? Just curious.

That is not the same as havbing a spare tucked away ready for use!

That's the bit that puzzled me - for that scenario to work, it does seem that men have to be content to be hidden away somewhere and wait for the off-chance that your marriage comes to an end!

No - I didn't and I wouldn't. I'm a 'once bitten, twice shy' person.

If any of us did have a 'spare' would we be inclined to mention it on GN?

The title of this thread keeps making me think of Justin Case, the pop-up man in a suitcase marketed some years ago which was designed to sit in the passenger seat of lone female drivers!

gillybob your pun has amused me for 24 hours now

Many years ago I met someone long before I had the courage to break up my marriage to an alcoholic, he gave me the courage to do what I had known in my heart should of happened 10yrs previously.

Love that pun gillybob

gillybob

oh my I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on!!!!

Should of added we will of been married 20yrs soon so I guess he was my stand by man.

Nice one gillybob am still chuckling

Gillybob totally at you!

Tee hee gillybob. I shall add it to my other favourite. "A hard man is good to find"