day no. 16,764: one good woman is a spiritual harem

"Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem." — G.K. Chesterton

A good wife is a spiritual harem. In other words, women are so varied in themselves, that to have one, is to have many. What men too often look for in multiple partners is what could have been found by hunkering down with just one of them. While a woman may celebrate the many selves inside her, she will not tolerate any outside of her. That is to say, her man must appreciate her various facets, but must not seek various partners. A man who has had multiple wives has in a sense been in contact with as many women as Solomon and suffers a similar dissatisfaction.

"Keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I could only be born once. It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking." — G.K. Chesterton

Whoever is not content with one woman will find two too many and hundreds never enough. The only solution is the one that God graciously provides and commands: one woman for one lifetime. That blessed man will have a harem without the harlotry. He will multiply blessings instead of wives and enjoy many women without ever wandering outside of his bedroom.