I have things to do, I don’t need to make my life more difficult.

The reason is this. Women, like men, are human beings subject to temptation and especially overwhelming temptation. Divorce is a legal action that becomes an overwhelming temptation because it allows a woman to take his house, his kids and half of his income until the kids are raised. If a man’s liberty is dependent on his wife’s ability to control her emotions, he’s 3 different kinds of screwed.

I’ve been married for over 2 decades because I took the advice you gave in the absence of reality and I’m seriously screwed. I deserve it, I was stupid and stupid should hurt so others can see and learn from the mistakes of idiots and avoid stupid decisions.

To put this in perspective, I would never encourage my daughter to enter into a contract that incentivized her partner to dissolve the contract and force her to continue paying into an enterprise with which she could no longer derive any benefit, with the consequence of going to jail or prison if she became too sick to work. And if the contract demanded she lose her house, half of her retirement and allowed her children to be held as ransom, I would do everything in my power to dissuade her.

The cruelest advice to give a young person, Man or Woman, would be to make the financially irresponsible decision to enter into such an absurd contract.

Advice to younger people should be given with prudence, not with irrational zeal, ignoring the environment they’re walking into.