She's embarrassed that her husband wants to retire early

MajIssuesCaptObvious · 2019-09-17T08:40:00+00:00

Talk about wanting to keep a guy on the plantation and work him to the bone.

Trek13 · 2019-09-19T15:51:11+00:00

something similar happened to my brother. When he was 40 his wife inherited a very large sum of money (7 figures). So he quit the job he hated and decided that now that they were set financially he would do what he really loved, skiing, mountain biking and wind surfing. This lasted about 2 years and drove his wife crazy. She divorced him. I think it is hardwired into women that men are supposed to provide.

TomahawkSuppository · 2019-09-18T03:27:47+00:00

Typical woman, husband is happy. She can’t stand it.

iseehot · 2019-09-17T21:00:21+00:00

Gender does not come up in the original post. Not likely it is a man complaining, though.

30203forever · 2019-09-17T09:09:22+00:00

Utility. If her indentured servant (aka a "husband") is not providing it, what is he good for exactly?

Impossible-asset · 2019-09-17T14:07:11+00:00

OP, what relevancy does this article have to mgtow as a focus in YOUR life or the life of anyone else?

Reading the article and the comments, and it seems to be someone who is struggling with a little bit of traditional role reversal, with maybe a little jealousy and (culture shock for lack of a better word).

It seems this article would be better suited on a relationship sub, posting it on a mgtow forum is destined to breed a plethora of "those wahmen" comments.

fmanly · 2019-09-17T12:53:33+00:00

Funny. The Financial Independence subs are starting to get MGTOW'ed a bit. This article of course came up with plenty of strong opinions expressed (not many sympathetic to her, though for differing reasons). Then there was a post about what big financial issues did people run into that they hadn't planned on, and divorce was a big one.

Redpill opinions were of course downvoted where they got noticed, but they were all over the place. I think a lot of guys planning on early retirement are starting to realize that it is a bit silly to make plans that only have a 5% chance of stock market failure based on looking at centuries of data, but then get married to somebody who has a 50% chance of taking 50% of your money, best case.

Oh, sure people will argue that it isn't REALLY 50%, but only 20-30%. But still, we're talking about people worried about another 1929 happening the day after they retire and then the market stays down for a decade (which has never happened), and so on. If you're actually that anal retentive about your spreadsheets and planning, getting married is like playing Russian Roulette, and arguing over whether the chamber has 3 bullets in it or only 1-2 seems silly.

Light_Dark_Choose · 2019-09-17T12:28:06+00:00

Ah, the myth of the supportive wife

Elvisonvelvet11 · 2019-09-17T12:00:27+00:00

Obviously none of the commenters so far read the article; the woman stating that she was embarrassed said many times that she was being irrational and that it was how she felt but was not the correct way to feel, as her husband had every right to retire early.

AND, Helen, the advice giver, said that the woman being irritated was indulging in a double standard and was not in the right.

qazedc0987 · 2019-09-17T10:53:31+00:00

Hey guys! Don’t be rude!

He should be grateful that she chose him to be her provider! The fact that you hate women doesn’t mean that she’s a bad person because she has been exposed as seeing her husband only as a status symbol and an economic provider!

The misogyny is rampant!!! I am outraged!!!

Title	She's embarrassed that her husband wants to retire early
Author	MajIssuesCaptObvious
Upvotes	20
Comments	26
Date	September 17, 2019 8:39 AM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW2
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MGTOW2/comments/d5e459/shes_embarrassed_that_her_husband_wants_to_retire/
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