One more story. A friend of mine is very wealthy (100 mil$+). He’s been taken to the cleaners twice by gold-diggers. The second marriage lasted less than three months; she had what she wanted: The legal means to get some money out of him. He won’t marry again.
To anyone where your partner-to-be is not deeply religious and commitment-minded to the point where they’ll suffer rather than divorce: Don’t get married. It takes a level of commitment such that if you or your spouse falls ill six months into marriage, (too ill for sex and full companionship), you or the other would still be willing to be faithful for the rest of your lives. If there’s not that level of commitment; don’t marry. It is very unlikely to work.
The typical American feminist has ZERO concept of sacrificial love; and that’s what it takes for a relationship to last a lifetime. For them it lasts until conditions change. Men can be trapped by love into an ancient covenant that makes no sense outside of life-long, life-giving commitment. The word “marriage” means something so very much smaller in the current culture than it did in the past: Don’t do it.
To Jenny: Birthrate in the US is maintained because of immigration from Latin American countries. Without that, we’d be as bad off as Europe. Analogously, the only European countries near replacement rate have high Muslim populations.
