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View submission: What's something you never understood about the opposite gender?
I have a theory, but it’s just that: a theory. I think that for some men, they marry a woman because she’s attractive and/or “wife/mother” material… but they don’t actually marry someone they LIKE or even love. Like, very little in common. And so then when the woman expects a partnership and he has to pull his weight as a partner and parent, suddenly mere attractiveness isn’t enough. Pre-marriage it was fun and relatively no-strings-attached, but a marriage and family can come with a lot of additional life difficulties and stressors, and going through it with someone you don’t genuinely like or love makes it harder.
(And I think this can happen to women too… if they’re just marrying because of attraction and the man’s ability to provide (if he makes more than her)… it can be a rude wake up call to realize you’re not actually friends with your life-partner).
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