To quote the late, seldom lamented, Richard Milhous Nixon, "Let me say this about that."
Friedrich Nietzsche also observed (in Morgenroete or Daybreak) that the Man who runs away from his Woman is a big frickin' wussy sissy man.
To Nietzsche the modern institution of marriage had been fundamentally destroyed by late-19th-century notions of romantic love. As a result, it no longer reflected the Will to Power that differentiates Man from others in Nietzsche's philosophy. So marriage wasn't doomed by lack of friendship; it was doomed because it was no longer about the male's domination of the female:
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With the growing indulgence of love matches, the very foundation of marriage has been eliminated, that which alone makes an institution of it. Never, absolutely never, can an institution be founded on an idiosyncrasy; one cannot, as I have said, found marriage on "love" - it can be founded on the sex drive, on the property drive (wife and child as property), on the drive to dominate, which continually organizes for itself the smallest structure of domination, the family, and which needs children and heirs to hold fast - physiologically too - to an attained measure of power, influence, and wealth, in order to prepare for long-range tasks, for a solidarity of instinct between the centuries... Modern marriage has lost its meaning - consequently one abolishes it.
(Twilight of the Idols)
So if WAH -- charming and delightful ol' Uncle Shmedlap -- can't even handle his cojones in as trivialized and debased form of "marriage" as Nietzsche felt existed in the modern world, then he is no Man at all (at least not as Nietzsche understood the term).
So two snaps and a raise the roof to you, La Moja.
