Comments by "Rose S" (@roses6564) on "You get what you pay for: the higher the prices, the better the service" video.

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  10. The root of the word Relationship is RELATING. Orion delivered the Dirty Little Secret of relationships elsewhere: Men don't actually want one. In Orion's own words: "Men want to be alone, just not by themselves." They enter relationships/marriages with an anti-relationship mindset: a "contract" that should guarantee them a few basics such as sex and sexual exclusivity, children for those who desire them, the social status of family, and the big ND/No Drama (read no requests from the woman to relate, spend time with her, pay any attention to her needs, etc. In his ideal world, he must be left alone to do as he pleases, not be "joint at the hip with her." Only at the genitals when he feels like it). In this arrangement, most men agree to share some of their resources with the woman, as well as NOT hit her and NOT cheat on her. If they provide these basics, they consider themselves great Relationshippers. They are not. In a relationship, women need the RELATING part: interaction, bonding, connection, romance, being "Besties for the Resties," you name it. Hm. What could go wrong? Nietzsche: "It is not a lack of love that makes for unhappy marriages but a lack of friendship." Brutal reality: The average woman and the average man find each other BO-RING outside of sex. This automatically makes most marriages unhappy for the long term, by default. At best, they become routine and minimally fulfilling. Only the cerebral, intellectual types can have truly happy marriages. (Can/possibility, not guaranteed). All others will bite the dust in terms of marital satisfaction, sooner or later. Some will divorce, others will resort to Marital Endurism. Joy is reserved for the Chosen Ones lucky enough to find their soulmate in an available state. Most will not.
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  16. There is a problem with the "polite/respectful" relationship under any and all circumstances. Anyone who has seen a few of those, understands how creepy they can be. Designing the most primary of all relationships in the same way formal/public sphere/professional relationships are designed (cold boundaries, if not call Security) is that it leaves no space for wholeness. A real relationship cannot be based exclusively on "politeness" and "respect" regardless of what is going on between the two. If the two truly admire and respect each other, there's no need for formal "politeness" anyway. That's called love and joy. Tolstoy nailed it: "Respect has been invented to cover the empty place where love should be." Humans have both a dark and a light side and if there is no space at all for frustrations to be vented, they become neurotic. If one partner has serious unmet needs, and the other consistently ignores all polite/kind/reasonable hints and calls from the other to pay attention, voices / tone will inevitably go up at some point. As they should. Beyond a point, there's no way around facing the music. There's a place for less-than-polite tone, otherwise the relationship turns creepy. The couple may continue to behave in civil, "respectful" ways but underneath the facade they feel anything BUT respect for each other. The relationship fails anyway. The most horrifying relationships I have seen are those where the two never fought, never raised their voice, but ended up in complete silence in separate bedrooms for decades on end, until death finally did them part and the other all but jumped for joy (the old model, divorce out of the question). Sane, good-willed, flesh-and-blood people (as opposed to lizards) go: delicate hint --> kind & polite --> firm --> emphatic --> voice raised --> ultimatum --> try again --> and again --> back to kind and polite --> repeat --> one more time...--> many more times --> decades later with no change --> ... End the friggin' charade if it becomes a realistic possibility. Sometimes things need shaking up, and sometimes even hurricanes have their place. Go Beryl, go.
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  17.  @marktapley7571  With all due respect, I never understood these "gynocentric court system" gripes. I think this male perception of the "unfairness" of divorce courts is rooted in two aspects: 1) Women's contribution to the family is more difficult to document (it can range anywhere from minimal to colossal but who keeps track?) 2) women's relational needs are naturally more complex than men's, but men insist that their way must be the default (sex, "no drama" - meaning no requests from the woman, minimal communication and emotional connection. That should be enough for her too). What pat of "IT'S NOT!" do men not understand? When women feel disconnected and lonely in a marriage it impacts them a lot worse than it impacts men. If the man gets sex and "no nagging" it's all good for him. The woman is not OK with just being fed, NOT cheated on, and NOT beaten. Never mind if she faces the latter two as well. Connection needs are very real for the female of the species (it's not a whim) but it isn't imperative for men. There's a reason the Kareninas and Madame Bovaries of this world risk EVERYTHING just to escape the mind-numbing torture of their loveless, emotionally disconnected marriages. Question: why is it that male biology must take precedence in the marriage model over female biology? Noticed how sex is considered imperative in marriage but emotional connection is not? Interesting. I get it in times of Maslow 1. But in a high-tech time when women can be providers too? Not so fast. When she no longer starves without a husband, she naturally expects higher -order Maslow needs to be met too, especially those that are crucial for the female nature (love, belonging, emotional fulfillment etc). If she has a choice for more than just a hand to feed her, why would she not take it? Think you have two job offers: one that barely pays the bills and you hate but have no other options; vs an occupation/vocation that you have a lot of fun doing and you would not have it any other way since you have other sources of income anyway. Please tell me why a man should stick with version 1 when he doesn't have to? In this vein, the woman has two options: 1) Wait for THE ONE who can meet those emotional needs, don't need to accept the first marriage offer for a few crumbs (she has a source of income, even if not the greatest). 2) If the match turns out poor over time (which they often do), she will want to divorce for ANOTHER who can meet those emotional needs. Pay her the fair share for her transactional contributions and let her go. If the marriage is downright unbearable, she might want to leave even at the risk of cats through old age and nothing else. Alone is often > bad marriage. Who wants to coerce another to stay with them?
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