There's a lot of advice on TRP that goes something like "don't get married, but if you must, do X." In the spirit of that theme, for those men who insist upon using the red pill to achieve their blue pill dreams, I offer the following: demand a dowry.

I started off thinking of this as a joke, but the more I thought about it the more sense it started to make. If you want to get married, and the state will no longer guarantee your marriage, then she needs to put up collateral. Think of it as a bond for her future good behavior.

Who cares if she gets half the house in divorce if her daddy made the down payment? Who cares if the wedding cost $30,000 if daddy broke out his checkbook. And who cares if you have to pay child support if you can draw from your half of the $150,000 "family starter fund" that daddy so generously bestowed upon you as you started your new lives together.

This may sound absurd (it is), but you've been asking and this is the best I've got. And yet it is a solution. This is an actual solution that could theoretically work in the real world. It would of course be very difficult to find a woman like this, but I can actually see a future scenario where some version of this reality becomes common. Daddy is a retired boomer sitting on enough money to last another lifetime. His little girl is hitting her late 20s and he wants desperately to make her happy. I'm just saying... it could happen.

So in conclusion, don't get married, but if you must, demand a dowrry. And if you are financial planner, get on this already. You're going to want to do some discounted cashflow modeling to determine the appropriate dowry to fully hedge the divorce risk for various demographic groups.