Ah Winston, You are alert. :-) I think you put the pin back in the grenade.

All good responses but none have hit on the real reason... yet. Jack, I saw a funny sticker on the back of a car a while ago. It said: "be alert. The world needs lerts." Well, I thought it was funny anyway. Winston, true - traditional business can and does do this. However, network marketing, MLM - call it whatever your preference is (we covered this earlier) - will do this far more often and with more stunning effect. So, I don't think, as Jack mentioned, that you have put the pin back in the grenade. You simply picked it up and chucked it back and I have done the same. Think about why I made the comment. Finally, Linda... ============================================================================= P.S. Plus - Al's wife wasn't moaning too much when he was showering her in diamonds and having dinner with the Reagans. Or, if she was, that's WAY TMI. lol. Sorry... BAD sense of humor. ============================================================================= That made me laugh - especially when I substituted the name Clinton for Reagans. Then you said: ============================================================================= I think the arguments maybe happen most when it's not making the kind of $$ that one or the other person expected. Sometimes the partner gets tired of waiting to see results while the other wants to give it more time. Guessing, of course, but I don't see the ones who are rolling in $$ arguing about MLM. ============================================================================= That is getting closer to why I said what I said. Glad to see you guys playing my little "war games" here. Gary Simpson

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Winston, true - traditional business can and does do this. However, network marketing, MLM - call it whatever your preference is (we covered this earlier) - will do this far more often and with more stunning effect. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It's hard to agree or disagree with what you are saying from my perspective as I have not seen a situation where a relationship breakup has been any more pronounced because the couple were involved in an MLM business. When a relationship goes bad, it goes bad. If what you say is correct then perhaps all couples should have to build an MLM business before getting married! It would cut down on the divorce rate! :-) I tend to think along the lines of what Linda was saying in that, it's the two people themselves that determine how good or bad a relationship will be.

Winston and the Forumites, Sounds like a rock band, doesn't it? LOL. Well, I'd like everybody to think about the "tools of the trade" in MLM before I progress this topic any further - books, tapes and functions - the "bread and butter" of MLM. Dexter Yager (numero uno Crown Ambassador - the Big Daddy himself) was the "king-pin" of Amway who hit on this idea. His sales of these items actually exceeded his sales of the product itself. And so did the other "big-pins." This is where they REALLY made the big money. So, how can books, tapes and functions put a wedge in a marriage? Ruminate on this. Any takers? Please put aside all the commentary of the standard reasons of divorce, separation etc. We all know that the divorce rate is way too high anyway. What I am looking at here is the catalytic effect - the hastening of a rift. While you are thinking about that let me lob the next grenade: ============================= Grendade #3 "Invite all your friends over for a dinner party, assemble them in a room and then... Captain Amway jumps out of the corner cupboard. Hi there!" ============================== That should give the afficionados of MLM plenty to think about. By the way, I'm removing my kevlar helmet - not enough strong rebuttals. Do you guys all go along with my assertions? Come on. I need some protagonists. Let's get stuck into it! Debate me. Gary Simpson

Okay Gary, I'll take a shot. ========================================= Grenade #2 - "MLM's can and DO destroy relationships and often it is a marriage that suffers." ========================================= Because of MLM one will spend more time selling to as many people and building new relationships and spend less time with existing relationship. So you get a whole lot of new relationships and destroy old relationships. It's a win-Lose situation which converts to Lose-Lose to me.