Man, that was satisfying watching him walk out with the dog because “he paid for it” after she tried to keep his clothes, because “she paid for it. A marriage is a partnership. It’s not meant to be “that’s mine” or “that’s not yours”.

She has an outsized inflated opinion of herself, to think she’s going to snag a strapping big fit guy much younger than she is, and it not be about the life she can give him. The way she tries to divide things up in an unrealistic way, without taking into account what he brings in is like roommates fighting over percentages. He should contribute proportionally to his earning ability. If it’s 10% of hers, that’s what she should expect, but also expect that he is not with her because she is his equal in terms of attractiveness as a partner.

All relationships are a give and take, and everyone should be absolutely clear about what they bring to the table. In some countries, having a North American (or gringo, as is often the term) partner is a status symbol. That can be very attractive to a person, and they can fall in real love with a North American less physically attractive than they, just based on that. It’s a life security issue, which in my mind, at least, is valid enough to generate love, if the other isn’t repulsive. But an American needs to understand that they bring that security to the table, and if they withhold it, like Danielle is, it can certainly turn off their partner.

She needs to appreciate that she got a guy who is hot, and she is going to have to finance that. He probably loves her, but there are a multitude of factors that go into that. Gringos so often think that attraction for any reason other than love based on mutual sexual attraction and conversational compatibility isn’t real love, and that’s just naive.