I’ve written a few tweets before:

Women spending money by percentages, the “waiter theory,” how to tell whether a woman is someone you can marry, and what kind of woman you should tell to get lost.
Recently, I found something else:
The essence of marriage is being the sucker.
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Living is the fairest for a person.
You don’t owe anyone, and no one owes you.
Marriage is different. In marriage, you will definitely end up being the sucker at some point.
You apologize for things that clearly aren’t your fault, and you pretend everything is fine even when you’re already completely exhausted.
Why do this?
Because you want to keep this relationship.
And the person across from you, in theory, will also do the same for you at certain times—two suckers scraping by, making do with each other.
That’s the truth of marriage: it isn’t a fair exchange—it’s mutual compromise in both directions.