Let me be clear: The choices MOST PEOPLE (including women, of course) make have no value to me.
But specific to women, a girlfriend is very different from a wife. I would never ask a girlfriend to “breed,” do housework, or otherwise do any of the other unpleasant things that most wives get themselves into. It would never occur to me to be that injurious. Perhaps you have no such objections.
Wife? With few exceptions, a woman would have to be certifiably insane to marry me. And yet there’s no shortage who vie for the position despite my protestations to the contrary. Believe me, it’s a paradox that I’ve never been able to reconcile.
