VM: Why is marrying for intelligence better than marrying for money? Your kids IQs will regress towards the mean anyway. (OK, not as much if your IQs are both really high, but it’s a lottery either way.) If you’re smart but not good-looking, you should marry someone really beautiful, so that your kids will have some beauty and some intelligence.
I’m surprised you’re davka picking on intelligence, it seems to me that men generally want wives who are less intelligent and more good-looking than themselves.
Chevron: Why is marrying for beauty better than marrying for money? Both come and go, and most men are fine with marrying for beauty, which is even more transient.
PBA: Your wife is eminently reasonable. What did she ask for in exchange?