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In my experience, marriage does wonderful things to a man. Honestly, I think that a lot of men are a bit lost, reckless, and just sort of meandering until they get married. Marriage changes men a lot, whereas I don’t think marriages changes women as much. Women can move through the world with quite a bit of purpose and clarity, with or without a partner. But, we all know how men can be—just a little unorganized, rowdy, and unfocused when left to their own devices. That’s not all men, but it’s a lot of them. Maybe it’s because they don’t know how to handle the awkward years between leaving their mother’s care, and not having yet found a new female caretaker in a partner. Women seem to handle that time a little better. We stay more on top of things like healthy eating and not partying too much, with or without a parent to tell us to do so. Men are a different story. Here are ways marriage changes a man.
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He views irresponsible friends differently
A man may see his rowdier friends a bit differently. He used to see them as hilarious and the life of the party. The men who could binge drink for three days and sleep with several women at once—they used to just be a source of entertainment. But a married man starts to see these friends differently. He starts to think of how women feel about those kinds of men, and how his wife would feel hanging out with that friend.
