Thread:Uncle Nimu-Dash/@comment-27247962-20171207192943/@comment-27347196-20171208074703

It ain't nothing new.

Living in illusion of love in exchange for money has been part of culture from old times. Points at Orians and Geishas that were more of wives then actual wife.

Man is a man, who's duty is to provide for his family while woman's duty is to give a man family to provide for. Because of these roles, husband and wife didn't had some sort of "rich" communication between each other as there wasn't much to discuss. Women were raised to be perfect wives not something more then it and man wouldn't have much to talk with his wife about his own profession, interests unlike with courteousness which would be taught in varieties of topics as they were trained to entertain after all. Which is why they were considered as your second companion (wife) as men could talk with them what they couldn't with their wives.

I derailed with this, though it is to explain why this isn't as weird as you may think. While mindset now is more "advanced" then these times, it is not that much really in all honesty.

In fact, there is now bigger pressure on youth due low birthrate as you might know and not having family after 20s and being in 30s is considered as shame, despite this becoming even more common. Problem is that in comparison to back then, women now are pursuing to be successful too, refusing to settle down until they achieve it.

And nothing wrong with this, but issue is this mindset that is still there. By time she manages to achieve her dreams she is no longer..... "desirable" but "used goods"(too old "for family") and then you have man not wanting his woman to be more successful then him due what you get taught as little which is that you should be a man. And in all honesty Dayne, from time I spent outside, still do, Europe itself isn't any more gentle when it comes to how "real man" should be.

Regardless, this is what brings us to Japan's birthrate being low as it is as well as increase in suicides. Way too many expectations, way too much pressure.

Because of it, illusion of love (buying fake boyfriend, wives, husband, family, friends, host bars or any form of illusion of love) isn't weird. It is no different then running to virtual world like internet to escape real life.