Nietzsche talked about how the free spirit, ideally, should live without a woman.

But then comes this devastating passage:

"There are many kinds of hemlock, and fate usually finds an opportunity to set a cup of poison to the lips of the free spirit"

The beloved wife as "a cup of poison". Brutal. But not unrelatable.

Someone asked on this forum a while back, why do feminists hate Nietzsche? Well, this aphorism is the final one in the section on women, and it concludes with a quote from Socrates: "O Crito, have someone take these women away!" What more explanation could be needed?