So I've been watching Orion Taraban again. Guy is pretty goated with relationship stuff. He has this stoic exterior and once in a while, his rough comedic side shines through.
Definitely looks like he has actually gotten some experience.
I would understand if many women I've seen in some comments don't like him. Because he doesn't cater to their wiles and the way they like to play innocent and oh-so-deserving of the best.
He is not trying to charm women. He is trying to tell the bros what's up as politely as possible.

One of his recent episodes is "You're the diamond mine" as the guy in the relationship.
This, as he astutely points out, is something women do not mince their words/actions over. They unabashedly show their desire for the top 10% of men, while "guys are a little more democractic" which is true.

Now comes the issue of divorce.

The truth is, women biologically want a relatively comfortable lifestyle and security (physical) long term from a husband.
Guys on the other hand would love the comfortable sex and security-to-their-wealth-and-image that a good wife provides.

Now when a divorce happens, our society today feels it is only fair if the man help to keep sustaining the woman's physical needs (except sex. Women can get this easily from those hotter dudes she would see during her marriage) — the biggest reason why she got married.
I think it stands on grounds of being humane.
As Orion (and research) points out, men generally out-earn women. So if a woman sired kids for a rich man and he chose to never sustain her livelihood to a reasonable degree even if he can, it would be bad form. As bad as not providing welfare services to people in a tough financial position.

Imo: This would actually devolve our society back to some jungle mentality. And, you bet, women and men would be at each others throats. Women would finally have a reason to actually hate men with a passion, and I wouldn't put it past them to start going black widow once she conceives.
She'll want the kid. You, not so much.
All fair in love and war, heh.

So what do we do? Do we never marry so there is plausible deniability of obligations? So she doesn't "have hard feelings" if I put up my hands and can't help?

For starters, imo, men only become such narrowly selfish beings when they are squeezed into the corner by fiat.
Naturally, men want to provide for their women. They will pamper them, show their strength, and let her come aboard his ship knowing it has premium service even if its not a luxury yatch.
The only thing men need to add as they grow older is a definitive vision with a clear mission and proof of walking a path to mission success. This is what attracts women who will want to stay, versus those who only want to be spoiled girlfriends.

On the fiat standard coupled with social media, women are constantly deceived by the sunny reels that their fellow women post. And given their attunement to peer influence, they too want those nice things.
This however causes dissatisfaction with their current relationships and many divorce for the most benign of reasons.

The fiat world has also created a pretty ludicrous reason namely:
"inequality of domestic and emotional labor" which you will find is the #1 cause for why women file a lot of divorces today.
In simpler terms and taking the women's perspective, these women are:

1. overwhelmed by the financial pressures— hence the point on domestic labour.
   She is willing to cook and clean like a tradwife. But she also has an 8 hour shift.
   She is overwhelmed. Thank you fiat for making women fail to find comfort after marriage.
2. overwhelmed by the emotional labour — because while her husband makes 2x more money, he bitches too much. Also, she has no girlfriends to vent with so when she tries to make him her girlfriend who she can just talk to, he wants to logic the situation.

Fiat is the problem. Fiat.
Orion Taraban is not a Bitcoiner and maybe being one will skew his content in the wrong way. But the writing on this wall is very clear.

Women being women, most would rather see the problem with their husband's instead of the wider society they live in.
I bet if women called out the actual bullshit in society that is causing their frustrations and not tried to find a fault with themselves or their husbands, many marriages would be saved.

Emotional burden also stacks up because some women are fruitlessly trying to outwork their husbands.
It is a sort of projection of their inability to outwork men at work, so they bring it home.
How do I know this, they claim "bringing the same value to the table".
"If i cook 3 meals a day for y hours, its the equivalent of earning x amount of dollars in y hours if I had those hours to work".
Women should really see through their own bs in such situations and realize that cooking dishes for x hours is not the same as say being a top level HR for x hours.
The latter is also a function of way more skills, network effects and luck.

As Orion points out, their can only be one captain of a ship. If a woman wants to be a captain, she should get her own boat and seek out men who want to be passengers.
Otherwise, meddling in the captain's quarters is nonsense and if the two people had a good thing going, it really is a tragedy for both.

If a woman feels overwhelmed and it is NOT her husband piling up the work either directly, or indirectly, perhaps the pressure is from elsewhere and this small crisis needn't snowball into a divorce.

So what if they divorce.

The whole point of me starting to write this piece was to try and logic out how the Bitcoin Standard handles divorce.

I'm no lawyer so this part might be me bullshiting ya'll but firstly, I think a prenuptial wouldn't be necessary in any marriage.
Prenup is like saying "I'll keep something secret / mine. Hope you're okay with that".
And by saying something is off limits, people fixate on it and try to game things around that.
Let's just marry wildy coz it's fun and coz so many sparks are flying between us and we kinda genuinely like each other despite the faults we now see.

The thing to fix is the courts.
Fix how divorce is handled.
Fix the idea of turning a respectable man into a woman's slave.

I once wrote an article on the future with a Bitcoin DoJ and while this might focus on asset recovery and protecting self-governance (which partly answers the current debacle of whether anybody should be managing node-software devs and how that should work), a Bitcoin DoJ would also handle divorce cases by evaluating what a woman's physical needs in terms of food and shelter were, and ensuring she gets only that until she marries again.
Kinda like how companies do it.

A woman shouldn't continue to live a luxurious life as if she is still on the captain's boat. Oh no. That's a abuse to a man's efforts. Earned not by being a wimp but by proving he is the alpha in his domain and he can beat out other men in fair contest.

This abuse is sustained by the fiat system because it emasculates men (making them harmless to fiat overlords) while giving women an even more inflated false sense of entitlement (making them just as toothless). The only thing we are entitled to is other people's respect of us, and that is pretty much enforced if she gets food and boarding meals.
I mean, by divorcing a man for frivolous reasons, she is pretending to once again be 21 and at the height of her beauty.
Well then, let her try at it.

Goes without saying that if you breakup with a girlfriend you should by no means give her any money.
All this is captured by Orion's astute video "Show her the money".
Never give her any.
Any human being respects those they cannot live comfortably without. By giving up the resources, you are removing the reason you're needed.
You might as well just be an ATM. Nobody cares to feel for an ATM.