The balance of power in a modern relationships, especially marriage, heavily favors the woman. Even happily married men I know concede that, always with some bitterness in their voice. Ironically, our own sense of chivalry and being a real man does not allow us to be as capricious and downright mean as our wives or girlfriends. I knew marriage was a compromise, I didn’t know women had the right, and endorsement, if not downright encouragement, from society, to unilaterally change the terms of that compromise.
I’ve been married 22 years. The first dozen years were good to great. It’s gone downhill since. I now honestly feel betrayed, destroyed and emasculated. I am a money making robot. Were it not for our children, I’d leave. In eight years, I think I will.
