I'm married and happy.
Most of what I read here about "gaming your wife" is wayyy too complicated.
Look, the bottom line is, you need to be an alpha guy who makes a lot of money, so that she can stay home and not work and raise the kiddies. That is how marriages work. There are lots of famiiles in my neighborhood exactly like that. Husband is alpha worker, wife is submissive and happy to stay home. It really is that simple. Those families have good odds of staying the distance. The families with a working career wife are almost never successful.
Foreign marriages to Thai women, etc, are successful because by foreign standards, American men make huge paychecks and so the "man as the wage earner" model is implicit.
All this crap about "gaming" your wife, I'm sorry, is kinda irrelevant. Sure you manage her a bit, but she's going to be managing you too, and women are much smarter about managing men.
Ultimately if you are bringing home the 100k+ paycheck that feeds her and the kids, then that is your power. That and only that. The rest is bullshit in my opinion.
Most of what I read here about "gaming your wife" is wayyy too complicated.
Look, the bottom line is, you need to be an alpha guy who makes a lot of money, so that she can stay home and not work and raise the kiddies. That is how marriages work. There are lots of famiiles in my neighborhood exactly like that. Husband is alpha worker, wife is submissive and happy to stay home. It really is that simple. Those families have good odds of staying the distance. The families with a working career wife are almost never successful.
Foreign marriages to Thai women, etc, are successful because by foreign standards, American men make huge paychecks and so the "man as the wage earner" model is implicit.
All this crap about "gaming" your wife, I'm sorry, is kinda irrelevant. Sure you manage her a bit, but she's going to be managing you too, and women are much smarter about managing men.
Ultimately if you are bringing home the 100k+ paycheck that feeds her and the kids, then that is your power. That and only that. The rest is bullshit in my opinion.