(1328) Beau

One would assume beautiful and intelligent women would marry well.

In reality, the answer is not always. If you have read my previous blog (1326) Overcomers: Second Child, then you see it illustrated a beautiful and intelligent woman who married a philanderer in haste, and repented at leisure.

Do you think that she was blinded by his good looks and wealth? Could it be that he had always been a womaniser but she was confident of reforming him? Or could it be that she was an absentee wife who was really married to her profession? Whatever it was, the divorce was unavoidable and final for her. She was obviously an ambitious woman who places her career above any husband of hers.

Now we look at another beautiful and intelligent single girl. She was a Petronas scholar and studied in United Kingdom. After graduation, she held a good position in the oil and gas industry, that was way before fracking, and sudden price slump in petroleum. While she was a student, she became engaged with an eligible young man with a bright future.

He visited her parents to formally ask for her hand in marriage.The parents were pleased with the match. However, there was a catch. Upon the nuptial, the girl's parents would purchase a very nice detached house in the girl's name. When both parents passed on, the couple would have to take the younger brother who could not care for himself, into their home. Of course there would be a trust fund left to be administered by the sister of this special needs boy.

Apparently the requirement was in cast iron, there was no place for negotiation. The suitor was quite willing to assume the care if the imbecile was to live next door to him and his wife. After all, the would-be wife was the only sibling of her mentally challenged brother. In the end, the young man refused to accept the condition, and broke up with his fiancee. A year later, he met a better alternative and got married. Beauty and intelligence do not equate EQ in matrimony.