Alimony and maintenance: Free executive lunches for wives

It is a known fact that whenever there is an incidence of matrimonial dispute and husband and wife live separate, law forces husband to pay monthly living expense of wife irrespective of the reason for them to live separate. This monthly amount which is fixed by court depending upon income of husband is popularly known as “maintenance”. Not only that much, after a long fought legal battle, whenever they both decide to dissolve their marriage and get divorce; due to various pro women laws (more appropriately, anti men laws) husband is forced to pay a huge amount to wife as life time maintenance which is popularly known as “alimony”. This “maintenance” and “alimony” are the liabilities enforced over husband without any return from wife. It clearly means that when a man marries a woman, he signs a contract which makes it compulsory for him to bear all life time expenses of his wife with no benefit in return. And no matter whether wife is living with him or not, whether wife herself doesn’t want to live with him, whether wife is living with her boyfriend, whether husband wants to get that piece of burden (I mean the “wife”) back to his home, or whatever…. but husband has to pay maintenance. And I think, for readers who don’t know laws, now it is simple to understand this law. But still I have few queries regarding this “maintenance” and “alimony” laws. They are as under.

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1. As world is getting more and more corporate, it is an obvious rule that no adult person on this earth can get even a single rupee without providing any labor/service/product. Then why this rule doesn’t apply to women who are getting “maintenance” and “alimony”?? Because when these women enjoy those free parties called “maintenance”, they are not providing any labor/service/product to the payer.

2. Few people may argue that a woman commits herself to husband’s home and take almost all household responsibilities of his home, so in return they should get “maintenance”. But as a matter of fact, number of such women who take household responsibilities are clearly at downfall in modern era. Few may argue that is because of working women contributing to finances of home. But then there is no law that decides or enforces financial contribution of earning wife in home. Law doesn’t even enforce any household duty over non working housewife. It means that if a man marries and after marriage if his healthy fat wife keeps on sleeping the whole day and whole night, still it is legal duty of that man to provide food and all other expenses to that animal. In addition, as that creature keeps on sleeping 24 hours; husband also has to wash clothes, cook and fetch water from well for himself and his lazy partner. Even if I accept that wife does all household duties, in case of separation wife is living at her “daddy’s home” or at her handsome boyfriend’s place. So from there, she is not doing any household work for husband. But still court orders husband to pay maintenance. Why is there no law which forces wife, even after they are separated, to visit husband’s home 2 to 3 hours daily, for the purpose of cooking, washing clothes & dishes and cleaning dust for him?? Now it must be very clear to readers that “maintenance” is nothing but lifetime free executive lunch for a wife.

3. Most feminists and other “women lovers” may argue that “maintenance” and “alimony” is in exchange of womb and sex that a woman has provided in her marriage. Well, womb alone can not generate any kid. It requires lots of sperm, out of which one sperm do the final business. And a child is not alone husband’s dream in marriage. It is in fact, most wives who are crazy about getting kids; so that they get secured from their husbands. And well, the other thing… sex. Feminists and other women lovers talk as if sexual pleasure is donated to men by women. The fact is women get equal pleasure or many a times even more than men. Sexual intercourse is not something which is a hard work for women to please men. In fact, it is a hard work for men to please women. ;)

Let us assume for a while that sex is provided by wife to husband and in exchange of that “maintenance” and “alimony” are their rights. But again same thing applies here. When couple is separated, wife is at “daddy’s home”. On those instances, wife is not providing any sex to his husband; still court orders husband to pay “maintenance”. Why is there no law which forces wife, even after they are separated, to spend at least 2-3 nights in a week with husband and to have sexual intercourse?? If there is such law in future, we can term it as “sextenance”. They argue that wife is habituated to luxurious lifestyle due to husband’s high income and so she requires same lifestyle and hence heavy “maintenance” from husband. Similarly, husband also gets habituated to sexual intercourses with his wife. Still why he can’t demand for “sextenance”?? On instances, when final order of maintenance is pending in court; women can apply for “interim maintenance” to get immediate financial relief. But a husband who is devoid of sex, doesn’t get any order from court which forces wife to visit husband once in a month to provide him “interim sexual satisfaction”. In case of divorce, when “alimony” is given as lifetime payment of living expense to wife; no court orders wife to go with husband and spend last one month with him to sexually satisfy him for long time (life time satisfaction in sex is not possible :P) which can be known as “seximony”. There is no “interim sextenance” or “seximony”, because they want to give women free executive lunch.

4. The last and final argument we come across , to defend these “maintenance” and “alimony”, is very emotional. They say, “You are her husband. And when she is not with you, where she will go? And who will feed her? Women are weak and they need protection and provision, so it becomes husband’s duty to provide her house for protection and money for her living expense.”

Ok, she needs money and roof to live on this earth. But is she on this earth because of her husband? Hell….no!!!! She is on this earth because of some action taken by her parents. Husband just signed a marriage certificate, or had some rounds with her around flames of fire. Does that make him responsible for her birth? If she can’t take care of her living, it is her parents who should take care of her. If she is not able to maintain herself, it is her parents’ fault who have not made her self sufficient and independent. Why husband should be made responsible who is of almost similar age to her?? And why wife’s parents are not made to contribute at least some part of her maintenance who are actually responsible for she being on this earth and she being not able to maintain herself??

All above facts make it very clear that government, judicial machinery, feminists, social structure and whole system want free luxurious lunches for women. But as they don’t find any other financial source to arrange those lunches and dinners, they have created a web of law that can legally help them to evacuate husbands’ pockets to avail the fund for the same.