@FIFABrit@DrJoeAbah Lol....all this epistle for dark art and set-piece football Arsenal reinvented. Would have been the worst champions, thanks to PSG!
You owe it to yourself not to marry a poor woman, a struggling woman, a woman ten layers below your income bracket, an “industrious woman” - whatever that nonsense means - or a financially unreliable woman. You are not guaranteed loyalty, nor a “forever,” with a poor woman, regardless of the sacrifices you make.
I say this for two reasons.
First, poor people cannot, do not, and will not make substantial sacrifices in relationships.
Second, a union with a poor woman overburdens you with the responsibility of manufacturing in her the capacity to be useful, reliable, and functional. You are forced to invest excessively just to make an adult out of a wife for the objective reason of meeting economic demands and ensuring sustenance in the event of instability or calamity. This is too much burden for a man. And doing too much for a woman, or for a relationship with one, is a mutilation of cosmic intelligence and design - you will be punished for it. You will.
However, the deeper point is this: poverty incapacitates people. In this context, it makes them incapable of sacrifice - of investing, gifting, supporting, and contributing meaningfully. Poverty, or the loud asymmetry of financial capacity, excuses women from contribution to the relationship. And it is for this sole reason, that a poor woman will not tangibly contribute to the relationship, that you must not marry one.
Women have a sharp memory of their sacrifices but a dull memory of their privileges. A woman, therefore, cannot be loyal to your sacrifices, because your sacrifices are her privileges. Loyalty to a cause is a function of the memory of the sacrifices made for that cause. A woman will therefore be loyal to the cause that contains her sacrifices, and to the man with whom she made them.
The litmus test for a woman’s loyalty, and consequently the durability of her companionship, is the amount of sacrifice she has made with you.
The point is not that you should not sacrifice for the woman or the marriage. The point is that you must first marry a woman who shares the capability for that relational necessity: sacrifice itself.
Do not marry dependency and call it love. Do not adopt an adult and call it partnership. And do not mistake your endless giving for loyalty earned. A relationship survives not on one person’s sacrifices, but on the mutual memory of sacrifice. I have said enough.