No that’s not the kind I’m talking about at all, although I’m sure what you mention happens as well.

I’m talking about men who want a wife and a family, who pair up with a woman who doesn’t, or maybe doesn’t with him. But he’s a good man, works hard and respects her so she goes for it. And what’s a young woman in the 70s to do if not get married by 22.

And he becomes a means to an end. Works 2 or 3 jobs to keep things going, and because she has no real love for him, she spends her days going for coffee mornings and spending money on crap, and never thinks of the family unit as a team pulling together.

You’ll generally find these kind of women to be wannabe social climbers, and they’re not as rare a species as you make them out to be.

These certainly exist as well and I could pull a few names of the top of my head, and many more if I stopped to think a bit. As a woman, you wouldn’t hear about them, as the details are normally shared over a beer or whisky too many.

It’s one of the reasons I oppose people who want to “save” marriages no matter what. Sometimes a marriage shouldn’t be saved.

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