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For whatever it's worth. Do the things that are in the best long-term interest of your wife and your daughter for THEIR sake. Take your own ego, your own self out of it; selfish desires, passions of depression, being low, not feeling good enough etc. Remove all those passions that are clouding your vision. Remove the passion of fear of loss, that if you do this thing or that thing you will lose your wife and lose your daughter. A good leader can NEVER lead when fear of loss clouds his judgement. A good leader is first in control of himself; he is a good following to another leader (find a spiritual father and learn to follow a spiritual father). Pray to God, what is it that I should be doing for the best long-term interest both spiritually and physically for them? And then once you have that vision. Execute on it. Never waver, never doubt, never have fear. Know that what you are doing is out of care for your wife and your daughter, for their long-term best interest. If that requires saying N-O to more money. Then do it. And if the consequences of your actions acting in the best interest for the long-term salvation of your wife and daughter means that your wife tells you "I'm done with you and I'm divorcing you", then STILL do it. Sacrifice yourself for them. And that sacrifice MAY be a sacrifice of letting your wife divorce you due to you standing firm in decisions you make. God willing it won't be and with God's help, your wife will truly understand and know that you are the best representation of Christ in her life and that she will never find anyone else in this world who can reflect the image of God, the image of Christ to her as you are able to do. And God willing and with His help, do that and there is a possibility that she will come running back.

For whatever it's worth (probably less than 2 cents); women respect strong, firm men. Why? Well because instinctively women are the weaker sex. From an ontological perspective both men and women have equal worth in the eyes of God, however God created men to lead as the head and women to follow men's lead as the heart (and when necessary point the head in the correct direction). There are things men do for that are detrimental to their own destruction. There is something as confiding too much in your wife; when that happens the wife feels like a mother rather than a wife. Women want their husbands to LEAD. Leading doesn't mean being a total jerk, abusive, etc. nor does it mean being a doormat. Leading means being out in front, setting the tone, the direction, the vision, the example. It's a heavy responsibility and not one to be taken lightly. This isn't MGTOW 101 b/c just as much as women need men to lead, men need women to follow to be good leaders. Men and women help each other in their God ordained roles and responsibilities. The first thing to being a good leader is learning to lead and not being lead. Learning to solicit feedback from those you lead but not make that feedback the lead. It is about not caring but caring. Leading means you don't really care what they think of you or about you, but that you care about their welfare, their souls. Everything you do is out of care for them, not out of you but that you don't care about how they feel about you. Because a leader cares about the long-term vision sometimes actions and decisions will lead to short-term pain while working for the long-term goal. And sometime when leadership has broken down, those being lead are cynical about the leaders care for them, they are rebellious, they do things to hurt the leader, to tear him down.

It is really about balance. Traditional marriage and relationships has the man as a primary provider and as such a woman should look for a man who can fulfil that role. That is one reason why up until recently there was a much bigger age gap between men and women getting married. The man needed to establish himself to some effect to demonstrate he was worthy of a woman. So a woman can go and try and catch the mid 6 figure income guy . . .but those guys are few and far between, but she could also catch the hard-working guy who provides an average life as well. If she is trying to catch the mid 6 figure guy . . .well she's got a lot of competition, so what does she bring to the table that the guy will say, "I pick you over all the over girls". A pretty face and looks is one, but then there is ability to keep a clean house, take care of kids, etc. Ultimately though, if a man or woman is not looking to God to help bring them together then they are in for a rough life. The income is very temporary, the looks is very temporary, in fact most things in this life are very temporary. The best way is to look to the traditional Christian views on what relationships between men and women should look like and there you will find the best recipe for success.

I thought you weren't LDS anymore?

We see it everywhere the hubris, the egotistical haughty attitude, "oh that will NEVER happen here", we know better than anyone else who has ever lived that's why we allow things that societies have said were wrong and horrific for thousands of years. God will use the wicked to chastise the wicked.

Meh, you only claim to not care b/c your guy isn't in charge. It's all about power. You've admitted to being petty and that in effect whether one side is using the power of the government it doesn't really matter...b/c it's not "your guy". But as soon as "your guy" gets in charge, you'd either a) do the same thing to others or b) moan and groan if it was done to your guy.

100% it isn't the irreligious and the godless that are causing this mess. It's the salt that has lost it's savour.

100%. Politics is downstream from culture.

No apology here. US is a morally bankrupt society that is on fumes...only thing holding it together is the ability for people to make money in the US. It has no cohesive united story that binds people together . . . except money. When the economy and US dollar goes (which is will), the US will tear itself apart. How long will that take?? Whenever the US loses a big war or a big fight with a near peer competitor.

The Hunter Biden vs. Trump is asymmetrical. 1) Trump reimbursed a lawyer who used personal funds to have a porn start sign an NDA. Trump has fully denied having anything to do with a porn star. 2) The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT provided classified briefings to Congress saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian Disinformation. The two have literally nothing to do with each other. One is using personal power and the other is using the force of the government. What should really happen is the individuals in the Federal Government who pushed the Russian Disinformation nonsense should go to jail. . . .but Fed. Gov. is never held accountable. Hunter Biden is just a pawn (sadly and I feel for the guy . . .he's a messed up dude from a messed up family), hiss father is the one who should be hauled up on impeachment charges for corruption and selling influence through his son. Hunter Biden . . .his mother is killed in a car wreck and his father is banging some chic prior to his mother's death who his father then marries quickly after the accident...messed up.

People get the government they deserve. Don't be surprised when your guy is locked up b/c someone else decides to be petty.

You should look up Robert's Rules of Order. The original system (which is effectively based off of Robert's Rules of Order), was not a strict majority. It was majority+. Ultimately, any official business has to have AT LEAST 50+1 of the vote. However, business cannot be closed or shut down unless at least 66%+1 say it can be shut down. What this originally meant in practice is that in order to take an actual VOTE on whether to pass a bill, it required 66% of the body to say "yes we want to vote on the bill" and 50% to say "yes the bill should pass". When adhered to what this actually generated were bills more likely to pass with a very strong majority. Changes in the bill would occur to get enough votes to shut down discussion of the bill (requiring 66%) and move it to an actual vote to pass (50%). You do realize that Mike Johnson has passed bills that have not even garnered 50% of the Republican vote right!!! That ain't 1-2 people complaining...that's a MAJORITY of the Republican Congressman saying, NO we shouldn't pass this bill .....and it gets passed anyways b/c Mike Johnson is power-sharing with the Democrats.

I've been in political situations where we didn't have a majority, but had a very strong minority (like 40%) and the majority didn't want to work with us, so we got fussy and whiny. One perspective is they are fussy and whiny and no one wants to work with them b/c of that. OR another perspective is the majority side doesn't want to give any crumbs to the non-majority wing and therefore the non-majority wing becomes fussy and whiny.

old school republicans would rather ally with D than the right; Congress right now is basically power-sharing between Rs and Ds, thanks to Mike Johnson. Literally he has given them control over Congress in exchange for him being Speaker.

Not true; The Supreme Court has routinely engaged in overturning laws that impinge on the 10 amendments. While the 10A originally only applied at the Federal level over time the Supreme Court has ruled that it also applies to State Laws. Therefore, SC could rule on 1A issues (gag orders). 5A issues (why was it not tried at a Federal Level and the retro-active felony charges), 6A issues (denial of move of venue to neutral location) and 8A issues (trying as a felony something that has previously been tried as misdemeanor). The SC does what you say it doesn't do all the time. We will see what happens.