... you try being married to a woman. Bloody taxing

... managed to avoid getting married. All of the married men I know are basically slaves. I mean, they get to have the "cool" experience of having kids, but I dunno if it's worth it. Bertrand Russel said it wasn't early last century, that a man having a child now would do better to invest the cost in the stock market, have a nurse when he retires, and I think he was right then and is right now.

Keep telling yourself that, if it helps.

Did your wife give you permission to post that?

May be the loneliest.
Plus,they've lost everything they spent decades working for. No support groups,just guilt and mockery piled on.
No wonder the drug and alcohol abuse and suicide rates for men are multiples that of women.

Unhappily married men are the loneliest.
Divorce is preferable. Personal experience.
The Facebook/Instagram/popular media husband is the new Prince Charming, and that is the comparable most spouses are up against. The ideal spouse can be found in online postings and news stories. He (because we're talking dudes here) is financially and professionally successful, photogenic, tall, fit, fun, stylish, sophisticated, supportive, great with kids, absolutely monogamous, amazing in bed and everywhere else, blissfully happy... and married to other women. Those luckier than YOUR wife, who short-sightedly settled for a sad sack like you. Clearly, she could have done better, as she and all her friends agree. And they DO agree, otherwise they aren't her friends.
Nobody wants a friend who will call you out on your bullsh*t anymore. It's archaic.

The reality is not so nice. Those social media postings and news stories are the equivalent of personal marketing. They are the pretty, shiny public face, as real as a beer commercial. The truth comes out some time later. That's when you learn that Alex is a drunk, Bob is a tweaker, Chad is a cad (heh), Dave bones escorts, Eric has a side piece, Frank is abusive, George is bipolar, Harry killed himself, Ian is clinically depressed, John goes for strippers, Ken got a divorce... Names have been changed to protect the ordinary. Any resemblance to real people is accidental.
The facade eventually gives way to reality, but the damage to your relationship from all these absurd expectations of perfection, has already been done. Once the complacency and resentment set in, it's almost always just a matter of time.
That 50 percent divorce rate is a very useful metric of success. Like a cigarette habit, matrimony kills half of all relationships that have it. You already know your odds going in. But everyone thinks it can't happen to them.
Life is risk, or else it's not really life.

You know that's the wife commenting... lol

44 years married for me. No complaints.

Excellent post.
Maybe a full article on the subject?
I'm certainly interested in reading it.

Depends who you are married to! You would not be lonely if you were married to me :).