The reason for Bill Gates' divorce was exposed, his net worth of 840 billion was divided, revealing the three truths of the marriage
The second-to-last day of the holiday, Bill Gates contributed a big news to people around the world.
On May 4, Gates and his wife Melinda announced that they had divorced.
The two ended their marriage for 27 years.
For a moment, it was incredible.
After all, they have always been famous for their close-kick couples, and their marriage has long been ranked first in the list of the most stable marriage models, just like the wealth they have obtained.
In order to facilitate the understanding of Chinese fans who care about him (eating melons), he specially posted a Chinese version on Weibo.
When everyone was speculating on the reasons for the divorce and how much money Melinda could get from this marriage, they arranged the reasons for the divorce clearly.
The reason is very high-end:
In the next stage of life, they can no longer grow up as husband and wife.
This reason is surprising. After all, Gates is 66 years old this year, and Melinda is 57 years old.
If life reaches this stage and is still exploring the problem of common growth, I can only say that either the life threshold of the richest man is too high, or there are problems in this marriage.
Their material world and spiritual dimensions have long been the peak that ordinary people cannot reach, but they are inseparable from the divorce.
In the separation of marriage in this century, we can still discuss some of the real problems and truths about marriage.
Although the marriage eventually ended up being separated, Gates and Melinda, who used to be the best of marriage.
As the marriage of top rich people, they skipped the choice of ordinary people from the beginning.
This is a love between the domineering president and Cinderella.
When the two dated, Gates was the boss of the company, a billionaire, and Melinda was a top student from an ordinary family.
In terms of appearance, Melinda belongs to the beauty ceiling among academic masters;
In terms of academic qualifications, she graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Duke University and obtained an MBA degree, with an academic qualification higher than Gates;
In terms of ability, Melinda became the project manager in a short period of time, achieved impressive results, and managed a team of 100 people.
In terms of values, they have a common life goal and contribute their life-long wealth to society.
Before getting married, Gates listed the benefits and disadvantages of this marriage on the whiteboard, and finally concluded that the benefits obtained by marrying Melinda outweigh the disadvantages, so he was willing to enter this marriage relationship.
This is Gates' choice.
From Melinda's marriage stance, if there is no rich Gates among her suitors, she also has enough high-quality choices.
The best of this couple can freely screen love values, personality behaviors, personal charm, common ideals... and finally determine that they are the most preferred in each other's lives, and then they enter marriage.
And they have gone through a 27-year marriage life together, and they have achieved great growth in their marriage.
The marriage between Gates and Melinda can't help but make people sigh:
Whether it is a rich man or an ordinary person, the value matching cannot be escaped from the beginning of the marriage.
Marriage is a complex body that requires multi-dimensional considerations, but after seeing too many choices of people around you, I found that many marriages are hidden factors of conflicts at the beginning, namely:
The marriage choices of too many people are still in the "oral period" of value screening.
I have a female friend around me who is facing emotional choices recently. The first measure for her boyfriend is whether her family has money.
As long as you are rich, you have a lower education level, you just need to have a bad character.
The material basis in marriage is indeed important, but it is not a decisive factor. What is more important is the other person's character, whether he can appreciate it from the bottom of his heart, and his common life ideal...
These determine the quality of marriage and the choice of life.
But we often see marriages like this: not long after the two get married, they find that they have unbearable problems with each other, either domestic violence, laziness, or lack of ideals...
In short, the reason for the failure of these marriages is mostly because the value choices of marriage were too single.
Marriage is such a rich and complex state of life that requires people to use all their wisdom to maintain it. If they start to be hasty, it will also be presented in an embarrassing way.
We need to enrich the dimensions of marriage screening, although this is increasing the difficulty of marriage.
But we have to admit that those marriages that weigh the pros and cons are longer and stable than single-dimensional thinking.
Someone asked: What does it feel like to be married for 27 years?
An answer reads:
Marriage for 27 years is called "mahogany marriage".
The peach wood has a hard texture, low dry shrinkage, beautiful wood grain and beautiful luster, which means that when the marriage reaches 27 years, we know each other well and are very stable, and it is a firm and lasting love.
So, what is it like to divorce after 27 years of marriage?
Not to mention other things, it must be that one party in the marriage can no longer bear the other person.
Gates' divorce documents were disclosed by foreign media that the divorce was filed by Melinda.
In other words, Gates thinks the marriage is not bad, but Melinda doesn't think so.
The divorce documents state,
The marriage has suffered an irreversible breakdown.
The fact is, this marriage is not as glamorous as it seems on the surface.
The initial hidden danger of this marriage was that Melinda agreed to Gates' proposal to a conditional.
Every year he had to spend some time alone with his first love Wimbledon.
Even their marriage, Wimbled had been sought. If Wimbledon nodded, Gates wouldn't have married Melinda.
What is even more unbearable is that Gates cheated on him less than four years after his marriage.
The object of cheating is Stefanie, a young and beautiful female college student in the company.
Later, Stefanie grasped the core secrets of the company and threatened them. Gates paid a huge price to cover up the extramarital affair.
As well because of the scandal,Microsoft suffered heavy losses, and the company's market value plummeted by US$8 billion.
Melinda spent this difficult time with him.
After this incident, Gates firmly decided on his choice and said that the most correct thing he had ever done was to choose Melinda as his wife.
When doing all this, was Melinda really willing? It is unknown to outsiders.
To be sure,
She once accused that Bill often works for up to 16 hours a day and leaves too little time for his children;
It was also revealed that Bill was very strong outside, and after getting married, she had almost no voice of her own;
Melinda, who is a strong woman, has to resign after the child is born, retire from the family, and raise three children in all her time.
Melinda has expressed more than once that their marriage has reached "incredibly difficult".
She wants her husband to leave more time for the family, she wants her husband to respect herself, she has too much life for this marriage, and she wants to live out more of herself.
After experiencing the value screening of marriage, can we ensure the perfection of marriage? Gates's marriage tells us that it may not be necessary.
After the value matching of marriage, it is truly close to each other's real needs matching.
The huge gap in demand will eventually tear apart those marriages that look good.
Marriage requires value matching and demand matching. Some people say that marriage is really too difficult.
Marriage is indeed not simple, so for an individual, what is marriage?
Marriage is more like a tool. Through it, we can see clearly our true appearance and find the real needs of life.
Everyone who enters marriage needs to ask these questions clearly:
What kind of person am I?
What kind of companion do I need?
What kind of person do I want to be in the end?
In a long life, if you choose the right marriage, you can make your life bear fruit. If you choose the wrong marriage, you have to bear the cause and effect.
A good marriage will nourish, grow, and fill our lives, and become what we want to be the most;
A bad marriage will make each other useless and devour each other over time.
Today, marriage is no longer the only criterion for measuring the value of life, and divorce is no longer a sign that denies the value of life.
Although Gates and Melinda divorced, the fact that they are a very suitable partner cannot be denied.
They lead each other, support each other, face challenges again and again in life, and witness the unparalleled beauty of life.
They went through high and low troughs together and crossed mountains and ridges together, which was much more precious and brilliant than the final divorce.
High-quality marriage process, whether it is old or separated, can be worth the final result.
And those evenly matched and perfect marriages are just revealed to people over and over again that marriage is just a topic of life and not a sign of perfection in the world.
The perfection of life is whether you can gain enough experiences and whether you can grow in every experience.
When you meet someone who is dedicated, you know how to be grateful and cherish; when you meet someone who is wrong, you know how to stop the loss in time.
Life is sober and independent, live up to others, and do not owe yourself.
The most important thing is that no matter what state or whenever we have the strength and courage that does not go against our inner self.
Gates and Melinda divorced, and there was only one rich woman in this world.
We are just reading other people's stories and living our own lives.