=========================================================== The wife then takes on a more assertive role in the marriage further pushing the masculinity of the husband further to the backburner, which causes a psychological wall to be erected. ===========================================================
That's exactly what I was talking about. Do you think that she would be able to take on this assertive role if she didn't know that she has her husband "over a barrel"? Do you think that he would stand for it?
As soon as "no fault" divorce became emplaced in this country, any primary wage earner foolish enough to believe in American justice and saving or investing his money, became the financial slave of his spouse. Perhaps it is better for a man to abandon sex, altogether, than to take a chance on either displeasing his wife with his choice of time, place and manner, or by not being "ready" when she is. Worse yet, possibly promoting her paranoid feelings of jealousy and suspicions of infidelity, even if not justified, by enabling her to be certain that her husband is perfectly healthy and functional.
The combination of "no-fault" divorce and "marital property" law is a pernicious and deadly evil, which destroys marriages, and could only have been crafted in Hell, by the Evil One himself! There can rightly be only one or the other, but not both. For infantile fools to believe otherwise is equivalent to wanting to "have your cake and eat it too".
No doubt if vile, demagoguic politicians could get control of the bakeries in this country, the way they have control over marriage law, they would then require them to furnish free cakes to their customers, on demand, in the same way that men have to furnish free money, on demand, to their wives!