Yes, your wildly misleading characterization of marriage does sound bad. But here in the real world (at least the West, unlikely it applies to the Middle East), "Women drive 70-80 percent of all consumer purchasing, through a combination of their buying power and influence." [1]

By the way, nice rhetorical trick of reducing half of all of one's wealth, plus child support and/or alimony to "a cheque".

[1] https://www.inc.com/amy-nelson/women-drive-majority-of-consu...