Cherish is the word...

I, (Groom's name), take you, (Bride's name), to be my wife,
to have and to hold from this day forward;
for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish, till death us do part;
according to God’s holy law.
In the presence of God I make this vow.     -Traditional Marriage Vows

Fungible: def

1.) Individual units are essentially interchangeable and are indistinguishable from one another.

2.) Easily replaced or exchanged.

Seven Cow Woman

There lived on an island a man with three daughters. The oldest was a great beauty and the middle daughter was witty hostess and a fine house-keeper. The youngest was the cause of the father's despair as she was neither beautiful nor witty.

One day, a traveler from another island approached the father to ask for the youngest daughter's hand in marriage.

It was the custom of the archipelago for the father to ask for a bridal-gift of one cow. Given his youngest daughter's impediments, the father was hesitating to even ask for a single goat.

The father was stunned when the traveler offered SEVEN COWS!!! Of course the father immediately agreed and the marriage was concluded within minutes of the father taking delivery of the cows.

Several years later, the father was traveling about the islands and decided to see if he had any grandchildren. He had avoided the gullible traveler and his youngest daughter because he feared the traveler would be angry with the father for having taken advantage of him.

The father was stunned to see that his youngest daughter had become radiantly beautiful...far more so than his eldest daughter...and she had become a hostess of great renown on the island. Indeed, she had many happy and courteous children. Far from being unhappy, the "gullible" traveler thanked the father profusely for "hiding" his wife from men who were incapable of appreciating her beauty.

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And we wonder why so many young women are angry and mentally ill.

It is even sadder that they are actively complicit in doing this (i.e., becoming fungible) to themselves.

From the male standpoint, being married to a good woman is like having a box that accepts $1 bills and spits out $20 bills. It is baffling that most men keep feeding the box pennies and some stoop to cutting the pennies in half.