rant · moment 4 of 30
Grand Floridian, Fighting Parents, and the Economics of Marriage
from 159 - Bomb Disney World · #159
2 min
Tim describes staying at the Grand Floridian hotel and his parents' constant fighting, spiraling into a riff about how having 'just enough money' (not too much, not too little) keeps bad marriages together.
- Tim's family stayed at the Grand Floridian, Disney World's top hotel, when he was seven or eight in 1993.
- Staying off Disney World property ruins the experience—everywhere takes three and a half hours to reach even with a monorail, boat, and train.
- His mother and father fought so bitterly at the character breakfast that none of the Disney characters would approach their table.
- Most marriages fail because couples have either too little money or too much money.
- A marriage needs just enough money to create fear about affording divorce, but not so much comfort that people get bored and leave.
- Tim's friend is a divorce lawyer in Beverly Hills who sees too much comfort breeding indifference in relationships.
- The ideal marriage formula: just enough financial anxiety to keep people trapped together for decades without happiness, ruining their children's lives.
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