the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get

English

Alternative forms

• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
• the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get

Proverb

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get

1. (vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.
   • 1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, →ISBN:

     Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."

   • 1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy‎^[1], →ISBN, page 93:

     Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."

   • 2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire‎^[2], →ISBN, page 63:

     "I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."

Usage notes

• A play on words which first uses the term fucking literally and then uses it figuratively.