I choose to interpret this whole section as an endorsement of the whole "jerk off before you make a big decision" strategy
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a proposed test to make sure you aren't just super horny when you decide who to marry: go away for a bit, and even if you're still hot for the ideal in your head, come back and see if it compares to the reality
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and another exercise: intellectualize your partner. get as dry and academic about her as you can. think about love being an evolutionary, physiological phenomenon. hell, psychoanalyze her. if you feel less love for her after this, you weren't really in love.
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awww "You may be sure that I, a confessed romanticist, would not urge you to these cold blooded considerations did I not feel sure that the genuine and valuable variety of love would be able to justify its existence."
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on wanting a beautiful wife: "Let's not fight it. Let's assume that the fairy tale was true that made the heroine lovely. Let's say you have a perfect right to a beautiful wife. But to make sure of no mistake you had best learn to be a connoisseur of beauty."
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"I am convinced that your love for beauty when rightly directed may become as efficient an aid to you in making a romantic choice as it ever was in the practical selection of a healthy wife."
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aaaand since it's 1929 this is now the "you can tell virtue from a face" chapter lol
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"The man who hopes to keep his independence by finding a wife who knows her place should reflect that no woman ever had any intention of keeping her place after she was married"
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this section is titled "the man who marries a dumb wife" summary: don't marry a dumb wife
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