Money isn’t the only glue that can hold a marriage together

The concept of the division of property.

In the first quarter of 2021, a simple school teacher in Seattle, USA, would find himself thrust in a world that he had probably never imagined. On that fine day, in a world battling a pandemic, Dan Jewett said “I do” to Mackenzie Scott, the world’s third-wealthiest woman. And he would also officially become the step-father to the four children of the world’s richest man. Dan also happens to be a teacher at the prestigious school the Bezos brood attend. Mackenzie Scott and Jeff Bezos were together up until 2019, wrapping up 25 years of marriage with one deft signature on the divorce papers.

And as though the world was contriving to teach the common folk that all the money in the world doesn’t make for a strifeless marriage, another couple, the Gates (or the Gateses), announced their divorce barely two weeks ago. They had been married for 27 years.