I believe I speak for every red-blooded male when I say in response to this story

[Peter]

Yes, it was a strategic error to declare that you would never marry her. Everything from that point is her revenge.

You ought to at least have allowed hope to spring eternal, as the man said, especially if you're actually going to hang around.

I had good reasons for not getting married.

1. She didn't actually want to
2. We hated each other
3. I didn't want to
4. Money
5. **** that!

[redgunamo]

Yes. Very good, but the point is, you don't tell her all that. That's how chaps end up getting strangled in their sleep or poisoned, with the bird getting off scot-free.

1. Just so. That's what they all say. It's you that's supposed to want to.
2. Irrelevant, m'lud.
3 See: #1.
4. See: #2
5. You say you were together for ten years so what difference would it make? What difference would it make if it were twenty years? Or forty

I had good reasons for not getting married.

1. She didn't actually want to
2. We hated each other
3. I didn't want to
4. Money
5. **** that!