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Originally Posted by sygazelle
As a person happily married for many years I will offer another point of view:
Marriage is not for everybody. I get that. If the OP feels this way he should certainly consider not getting married.
For us, a successful marriage meant buying into the whole concept of marriage and the vows that we shared.
We agreed when we had kids that my wife would stay home with the kids until they got through school. I was lucky enough to have a career where we could afford to do that. But even though I was the "breadwinner", I never once thought of our assets as my money. Without my wife's support, I never would have finished college or grad school. Without her taking care of the home front, I never could have had the time to focus on my career and earn what I earned over the years. I was still very involved at home and with the kids, but my wife stepped up and took care of things so I could concentrate on my career.
We have had a great life and a great relationship. Our two kids are raised and through college and between them they have 6 kids (our grand kids). To me, our situation is priceless. So to answer the OP's question, I would get married nowadays in a heartbeat if I had to do it over again.
Back to the point of the $3.5 million per year that Dr. Dre's wife gets in the settlement: That's NOT his money that he is giving her. That's THEIR money that they chose to settle on as an annual payment out of their marriage assets. This notion that no pussy is worth $300k per month is not quite accurate since it was her money too according to the law.
I have no idea if Dr. Dre's career would have flourished the way that it did without his wife by his side all of these years. You'd have to ask him that. But, the $3.5 million per year is only 1/3 of one percent of his assets. To put that into perspective, if a regular guy with $500,000 in assets gets divorced, this settlement would equal only $1,750 per year to the wife. I think most guys would be very happy with such a settlement.
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You're arrangement of wife staying home while man goes to work is frankly non existent today. Here is why.
1.) feminism has said that arrangement is sexist. It has shamed it.
2.) it's rare (non existent?) that in today's worship kardashian (do nothing but live like a princes lifestyle) that woman worship, to find someone willing to do the HARD work to stay home and take care of all things outside of the man's work. They act like hiring help is actually a contributor
In today's world when married to a rich man woman want to a.) stay home, not work and if there are kids hire help. b.) if there is the pressure of work or expectations to contribute they cry sexism c.) when it comes time to divorce they want to rewind time decades as if they live in the era where woman do actually contribute half and demand massive settlements.
The problem is that in today's political climate no politician would touch this topic at the risk of being called sexist.