People seem to be split between two sides:
1. MrLemon is making a smart move by avoiding the introduction of new volatility, via money, into his stable family life. He understands women and is to be congratulated for his foresight and self-control.
2. MrLemon is, in actually, the one being controlled by his wife. If his wife had money, her poor choices would result in a deteriorated family life. His decision to marry this particular women has severely limited his earning potential.
Both of the above positions are correct. MrLemon is making the best of a shitty situation. He's limiting his potential, because he has to.
More importantly, the OP can be taken as another reason not to marry Western women:
The above quotes give insight into which activities one should watch out for in a potential LTR.
OP is clever in his current actions, but, more and more, it seems that getting married to a Westernized women is a financial death sentence.
1. MrLemon is making a smart move by avoiding the introduction of new volatility, via money, into his stable family life. He understands women and is to be congratulated for his foresight and self-control.
2. MrLemon is, in actually, the one being controlled by his wife. If his wife had money, her poor choices would result in a deteriorated family life. His decision to marry this particular women has severely limited his earning potential.
Both of the above positions are correct. MrLemon is making the best of a shitty situation. He's limiting his potential, because he has to.
More importantly, the OP can be taken as another reason not to marry Western women:
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Because you see, she watches all those crappy family-destroying TV shows...Sex in the City, The Good Wife; and she reads the endless swell of crappy novels which encourage modern women's apparently boundless appetite for self-absorption at the expense of their families.
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She is helpless in the face of relentless advertising. "Abandon your kids. Abandon your family. Be rich and famous".
The above quotes give insight into which activities one should watch out for in a potential LTR.
OP is clever in his current actions, but, more and more, it seems that getting married to a Westernized women is a financial death sentence.