I had a really close friend growing up who was LDS and very religious. He was truly a good guy. The kind of guy you could trust to do the right thing in any situation. He went on a mission, came home and got married to another “good” LDS woman. Over the years their family grew as most LDS families do and they built a successful business.
They were that family that had it all. The great family life and the successful business. They didn’t have to worry at all about money or providing for the family. From the outside they seemed perfect. Like the type of relationship anyone would aspire to have. He was a great dad and a loving husband. Of everyone I knew personally, he was the one person that I would have bet money on having a long lasting relationship and not get divorced.
Yet even those men who live the perfect life are not immune to the perils of divorce. Thanks to the hypergamous nature of women, my friend is now going through a divorce that will cost him millions of dollars and take a massive emotional toll on him and his children through no fault of his own. When you listen to a women describe what they want in a man, he was that man. He was faitful, loving, successful, tall, good looking and in great shape.
You see, there is always going to be someone who makes more money, is more attractive or has a higher status and in todays digital world the access to these individuals is overwhelming. And the more a man creates wealth and status, the more he associates with others who have wealth and status and bringing a woman into that frame introduces her to those other men.
It’s a lose-lose situation if you’re married. It’s not a matter of if something is going to happen, but rather when something is going to happen. As men we need to rise up and take a stand against marriage and stop letting these women take advantage of us.
