Am I a selfish prick?

[TwistParticipant]

Keymaster wrote:

I have written my own marriage contract before,

FYI, Albert Einstein did also.

CONDITIONS

A. You will make sure:

1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.

B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:

1. my sitting at home with you;
2. my going out or travelling with you.

C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:

1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;
3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.

D. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.

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[KeymasterKeymaster]

Twist wrote:

FYI, Albert Einstein did also.

AWARE! I would thank him for the inspiration.

2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;

That was at the very top of mine and I mentioned it here a few times.. When I showed it a woman, she laughed.

“OMG LOL!! You’re not serious”

“I’m perfectly serious. Not talking is asking virtually NOTHING from her. It requires less effort or energy than applying lipstick. And for all the things my bride would expect from her husband in order to be “happy”…. if she isn’t even willing to DO NOTHING to please her husband, then she is simply not marriageable.”

Her bottom lip was quiverring.

She can call me a “selfish prick” all she likes.
( Selfish bitch )

So the OP doesn’t needs a mega-list of unreasonable demands like women have. He can just demand she greets him with a SMILE every morning until death, and a woman would STILL think that’s unreasonable. Here’s one of them now….

“I contemplate divorce everyday. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn’t quite pieced out that I’m not viable before 10 A.M.”

The miserable bitch is not even marriageable in the first place.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[OldBillParticipant]

Einstein’s list of conditions is always presented out of context. He composed and sent it while he and his first wife, Mileva Maric, were separated. He was most likely hoping she’d refuse the conditions, stay away, and thus pave the way for a divorce. At the time a separation of five years was a requirement for divorce.

Prior to marrying Maric, Einstein had been romantically involved with another woman named Marie. Maric was not only a fellow student with Einstein, she was the only female student at the school. She and Einstein had known and worked with each other for several years. Einstein ended up marrying Maric instead of Marie thanks to the oldest trick in the book; Maric got pregnant.

She had a daughter by Einstein about a year before the two married. It being 1902, Maric left Zurich and returned home to Austro-Hungary for the “confinement” and the delivery. The child was either put up for adoption, died of scarlet fever, or both.

Having already failed her final examinations twice, dropped her dissertation work, and disposed of her bastard child, Mirac returned to Zurich and basically shamed Einstein into marrying her. They were married in early 1903 and had two more children, sons this time, but the marriage was never a happy one. Einstein wrote Marie complaining about married life and, after she married, began a relationship with the woman who would become his second wife.

In 1914 when Einstein was offered a prestigious and lucrative job at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Maric went along at first only to quickly return to Zurich. She took the kids, naturally, and half his annual salary. Although he married again 1919 soon after his divorce was finalized, Einstein even gave Maric his 1921 Nobel Prize money.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[BrainPilotParticipant 7640]

At OP,
I figured your post was sarcasm pretty quickly. But as I re-read it, and the comments after, I started to think about some of the negotiated relationships I’ve had, or attempted to have with women. Not to question or challenge anything already written on this post. But lets everyone else just to do a little economic exercise. Stay with me here for a minute…

Let’s say I pay the neighbor’s kid to wash and wax my truck once a week. That would be about 30-40$.
And let’s say I go to a restaurant down the street and get breakfast every day. That would be about 8-10$ a day, or about 60-70$ a week.
If I do the same thing at dinner every day, for 20$ each day, that would be about $140 a week. This would cover the cook, waitress, busboy and dishwasher.
Then, let’s pay a maid to come over once a week and do all the dishes and laundry and housework. At 10$ an hour, if she stays all day, it’s only 80$ a week.
If I pay the neighbor’s kid to mow the grass at my house every two weeks, it’ll be about 50$ each time, or about 25$ a week.

So far, we are up to about 350$ a week. This works out to about 18,000 per year, assuming she never takes a vacation. That’s what these nonsexual services are worth in a free market. This is the value of all this unskilled, uneducated, untrained labor. Women may think it’s worth more. But in a free market, that’s what it trades for every day of the year.

$350 a week will NOT cover half (her half) of the cost of living in a house in my neighborhood. Never mind her half of the utilities, food and maintenance. So if a woman lives in the house the I pay for and provides me all these services, she is getting a standard of living WAY HIGHER than she could possibly afford for what these services are worth.

Taking the hypothetical scenario in the original post, the only thing remaining that she has to offer to make up the difference is sex. And if that sex is going to be worth the difference between 18k per year and the standard of living that I am going to be providing, it SHOULD be all about me, performed by someone skilled and motivated, and frequent enough to adequately compensate me for the cost of that standard of living.

Since most women lack the skills and motivation, and aren’t attractive enough to command the prices that an adequately attractive prostitute would get for the same services, the best sex the average woman could provide is still inadequate to make up the difference between what they take from, and what they bring to the table.

My point is that even though the original post was intended to exaggerate to an extreme to be funny, if you take it completely seriously, and do the math, the man is still getting the short end of the deal financially as it was described… all while being called a selfish prick for it.

Hence: MGTOW.

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