Pearl - October 22, 2026


ā€œIf You Can't Afford a DIVORCE, You Can't Afford Marriageā€ @JustPearlyThings

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ā€œMarriage Used to Be a PRIVILEGEā€¦ Now Everyone Thinks It's a RIGHTā€ @JustPearlyThings

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Length

2 minutes

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197.23

Word count

580

Sentence count

22

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Misogyny

6

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Toxicity

5

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5

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00:00:00.000 Now, I think what happens is people are not hearing the message because maybe they may have an emotional reaction of what I'm saying.
00:00:07.960 Right.
00:00:08.200 Or maybe they see how I live and they say, is that the free agent lifestyle?
00:00:11.140 I say it's a version of it.
00:00:12.680 OK, but it's not exactly that.
00:00:15.520 OK, so I'm 10 years ahead of the 15 years ahead of the free agent lifestyle.
00:00:19.300 So I'm at another level and you're coming in with the love of your life and you fix you work at Jiffy Lube and she works at Subway.
00:00:26.260 All right.
00:00:26.700 Shout out to all of these people there from the corporations there. 1.00
00:00:29.320 send me a brand deal but when it comes to it most marriages historically required a financial 0.99
00:00:37.000 yeah put up correct a man needed land yeah or he needed to inherit yeah and you got a dowry
00:00:44.040 so both parties came to the table with something you're kind of seeing that now
00:00:48.500 except now it seems to be clout that people are um bargaining more or he needed a father
00:00:55.440 to put up his land which kind of leaves a lot of status changing um opportunities that we haven't
00:01:01.780 really seen in all of history like in a way this is the greatest time to be alive you can be as
00:01:06.320 hypergamous as ever men or women right because if you learn game nowadays uh there is an opportunity 0.94
00:01:13.040 to get a rich bitch you can get resources through sex both genders honestly can acquire resources 1.00
00:01:19.840 through sex better than ever now the men um they're too you know they have morals so they don't 1.00
00:01:26.060 usually do that but you can fellas get to the gym get you a high earning bitch to be able to get a 0.98
00:01:31.780 spouse yeah another parent you'd look at bride prices and you look at these things where they 1.00
00:01:37.120 had the father had to put up a price in case the woman did not come through and do what she needed
00:01:42.940 to do she he also needed to protect the reputation going into the marriage so marriage most of the
00:01:48.560 time was for people who were not in poverty, who were in a better situation, who can afford
00:01:54.420 marriage. Now, because we went to a romantic version of marriage, combining with a state
00:02:00.300 government contract, now people feel that I'm taking something away from them that's a privilege
00:02:06.120 or that's a right. I'm taking away marriage from you. Hey, I have a right to get married. I have
00:02:10.420 a right to fall in love. Well, what I'm telling you is historically, we had never done that.
00:02:14.720 This is the first time in history where we've combined romance and state-sponsored contract and look at what it's causing.
00:02:20.400 We have a divorce rate, 40%, 50%, 60%.
00:02:22.740 We have single mothers.
00:02:25.040 We have kids raising split households.
00:02:27.520 We have two-parent incomes, and the kids are out there drinking Kool-Aid and all kind of hostess Twinkie Cakes when they have a childhood obesity that is out of control.
00:02:36.560 And we're trying to figure out why people believe that I'm taking their right away to get married.
00:02:43.580 I'm trying to tell them that marriage is a is not a right right it is highly a privilege
00:02:49.720 and people are treating it not as a privilege they're treating it as a right I have a right
00:02:54.620 to get married you're not in a position to get married