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That rock is a form of marital financial insurance policy, should she decide to bail on you for whatever reason. It's small, portable and relatively fungible.
by Hoff 16y ago
That rock is a form of marital financial insurance policy, should she decide to bail on you for whatever reason.
It's small, portable and relatively fungible.
She definitely knows that, too.
And yes, you could call it a reverse dowry.
Or a spousal hedge.
- dgordon 16y agoNo it isn't, at least not when the article was written, and I can't see why that would have changed in the past 30 years. The article discusses how it's basically impossible to sell a diamond for anything near "market value" (as far as that term makes sense in the context of a global near-monopoly) and how a lot of places won't pay cash for diamonds at all.