On 2020-10-22 11:41, John Newman wrote:
Maybe you can find a high-dollar hooker, James, or a few of them, that will let you play out your fantasy of life in the Maghreb 1200 years ago. Somehow I doubt even this would make you happy. You don't seem the type for happiness.
Every happy successful marriage is quietly and furtively eighteenth century. Some time ago, I regret I cannot give you the link, a bunch of academics surveyed a bunch of academics on sharing the housework. They found very few marriages equally sharing the housework, in those marriages that were equally sharing the housework, the husband was living in a man cave and sleeping on the couch, and none of those marriages survived to the next survey. All happy families are alike - which means there is only one way to have a happy family, and all families that differ from this are unhappy. Deviation from patriarchy has a simple one hundred percent failure rate, resulting in divorce and single motherhood.