In no uncertain terms should you sign a contract with the state to profess your love for the woman you would enjoy to spend the rest of your life with.  The lot of people do not recognize how long forever is. Forever is longer than 'ever' and ever is pretty long, itself. Outside of certain tax benefits, absolutely nothing can be achieved through signing a contractual obligation with the state that can't be achieved by not signing a contractual obligation with the state. A ring can be purchased. A wedding reception can be thrown. A honeymoon can be experienced. Land can be purchased. A house can be built. A family can be created. Children can be raised in a two-parent household. This woman can still be referred to as your wife. Love, exclusivity, and happiness can be experienced forever and, what do you know, this all possible without signing a contract. Who would've figured? As men, all too well versed are we on the drawbacks of not necessarily marriage, but what can come if it fails. The lot of women want to be married, but do not want to be wives. The lot of women want to have children, but do not want to be mothers. Men, do not relinquish the freedom you have to make decisions for yourself and the family you are creating. It is completely unnecessary in the grandest of ways. 

There is an unspoken war between men and women in regards to dating within America. For the lot of men, dating in America can be a depressing and torturous journey. All too often, it is one that may never even end. Both men and women are gaming the other sex while attempting to extract the most resources out of the other while giving the least. For many, America is simply an extraordinarily disgusting place to attempt to date and find genuine love. Living in both Europe and South America for several years combined, I have taken away some positives I have seen from the dynamic between men and women in these lands. I have decided to share them here and provide a different perspective. One major theme from every nation I have lived in and how they greatly differ from America remains common across the board, and that is the legality of prostitution. 

This was a spontaneous journey from the small neighborhood of Großdornberg Lohmansshof to the big city districts of Köln. Silvester of 2016 was a day that held some of the most violent attacks against women the nation of Germany has seen in modern history. Months prior these attacks, there was an incredibly large influx of immigrants that relocated to Germany from Syria and some North African nations due to raging civil wars within their homelands. Well over 5 million Syrian families were displaced and still are to this very day. There were many assaults, rapes, and robberies taking place while much of Germany celebrated bringing in the new year completely unaware of the horrors taking place simultaneously.  Much of the nation found out about these violent attacks the following day through news and media outlets. Others, like myself, were thrown into the middle of the fray and had to make the best of a situation that had the potential to become not only dangerous, but deadly. This is my perspective recaptured.