The power to walk away.

What do you do when something doesn't go your way? You walk away.

Not in legal marriage however. Once you are legally married you have already signed a binding contract that stipulates, you owe your wife alimony in the case of divorce until she gets remarried and/or in some jurisdictions until 18 years. Alimony is automatically assumed to be at 50% of your net pay each month. So if you make $2200 after taxes, you owe her $1100 every single month until she remarries, and if you were unlucky enough to have children with her, then on top of alimony you also owe her child support payments and in most cases your house. Yes, that's right the divorce court will automatically judge in favour of her taking your own house and you ending up on the street working two jobs to pay the 70-85% you owe her.

And what happens if you don't make the monthly payments you ask? Well, you get thrown in prison. Great.

Once you sign that contract you can't just walk away. You are on the hook for 18 years/rest of your life in case she doesn't find someone else to remarry. And if you know anything about the marriage subs on Reddit, most of those women (you know the key players) who are divorced, are still divorced and even echoing sentiments that they may never get remarried as they found out they hit the wall. Unless they feared Allah and rejected their legal rights in the contract (which I don't know if they did as I am unaware of their situation) that already means 9 months - 2 years of divorce settlement payments.

This is the reason why we say legal marriage is haram and Nikah only is the way to go because in Islam this whole alimony business is never allowed in Islam.

Fatima bint Qays (Allah be pleased with her) reported from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that there is no lodging and maintenance allowance for a woman who has been given irrevocable divorce. [Muslim 1480]

Islam knew the wisdom behind this because if you were legally binded to your ex wife in a financial contract during divorce you would never truly be able to move on because 1. She can take you to the courts anytime 2. The financial burden on the ex husband would never allow him to remarry.

Tell me, if you owed half of your net pay to your ex wife, would you ever be able to get remarried again? For most men they would never be able to remarry because they wouldn't have the money to support themselves, their ex wife and a new wife after the divorce settlements and here we have the bullshit imams, saying that "ohh in the US you need two household incomes to survive." Oh yeah? Well imagine living on half an income. What do you say about that?

Of course they say nothing about it because they are cowards who neglect men's issues and advocate for legal marriage. When the truth is, legal marriage is HARAAM.