
In relationships you are paid in kind.
You invest emotionally – you get love or hate.
You invest time and effort – you get attention.
You invest formally – you get a proper spouse.
You invest financially – you get an expensive divorce.

You know about compensatory senses?
How blind people develop more acute hearing and so on?
Well, I can barely see, and my hearing is none too good.
So, I had to develop a compensatory sense of humour.