I got a call from a buddy yesterday looking to vent and get some advice.

The backstory is he married young because of an 'accidental' pregnancy. I think this woman saw his potential and hitched her wagon to him early on. The short version is they had a ton of ups and downs, she cheated, separations, and reunion babies. I told him almost two decades ago to cut his losses but he abhors failure and saw divorce as failure. The other part of the equation is that this chick is genetically blessed and after a group of kids can still sport a six-pack so I'm sure that factors in.

Fast forward and they finally divorce. He makes bank but the divorce rape was pretty epic. He focuses on himself, gets super fit, and grows his consultancy.

Here's where it goes from bad to worse. He meets a woman and 'she's not like other women'. So, what does he do? He wifes her up and reverses his vasectomy. Now he has a new baby.

His ex routinely drags him to family court to impose her will on him. She's amped it up now that he has a new wife and child. Even though he won a 50/50 time split with his kids, the gynocentric cuck of a judge decreed in his last visit to family court that his new wife is unable to mete out minor punishment, as in take his daughter's cell phone away for refusing to do trivial household chores. New wife refuses to bend on the judge's order that she act as a bystander in the discipline of his kids so he's looking down the tunnel of another expensive trip to family court.

He's caught in power play between this group of women; his ex, his teenage daughter, and his new wife all trying to control one another.

Don't be this guy. He bought into the traditional provider role lock, stock, and barrel and now he's trapped while they play tug of war with his soul, his money and eventually his health.