Ask A Genius 742: William Congreve
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/05/12
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The quote – “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve.
Rick Rosner: I’m not super qualified to address this because we just had our 31st wedding anniversary plus we’ve been in couples counseling for like 27 years because we have good insurance that covers counseling. So once a month go to counseling and try to resolve our issues. Okay, the people who scorn people; people who blow other people off are people with reasonably good self-esteem and my wife and I have not the highest self-esteem, at least in terms of romance. We’re probably in the bottom 40% of self-esteem and people with high self-esteem are cocky. My siblings and I, half of us have high self-esteem and dump people the other half have low self-esteem and try to make relationships work. My wife and I, we try really hard to make the relationship work; it’s an investment. My feeling is that if you dump somebody you’ve created interpersonal chaos and misery, financial chaos, and you’ve given up half your assets and you’ll end up with somebody who’s probably going to be just as shitty as the person you’re dumping but in different ways.
If you’re dumping a long-term partner just because you think it’ll be easier to orgasm with somebody new or somebody younger then that’s just stupid because the only people we’ve talked about this who don’t have to beat off in a relationship, who get all their sexual needs met with their partner are either incredibly lucky or psychopaths. Everybody else either has very small libido or has to jack off. Some gay guys might be able to get all their needs met with other gay guys because gay guys are mutually horny but guys who have sex almost entirely with women need to get used to having sex with themselves because that’s just statistically what’s the deal is. And just devastating your life just for like extra ease of jizzing because now you’re with somebody who’s 22 years younger than you is in my mind stupid.
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