millions of people end up in bad marriages, people far smarter than me. i cant say that a bad credit score is a guarantee that she will be a bad wife, but in a world where women outnumber the men, i dont need to take that kind of risk. there's a lot more women, so i can afford to have a strict policy on that.
anyway, if a woman had no obvious signs of troubling financial behavior, but her credit was jacked up, i would be foolish to continue with anything serious regarding this woman if she could not come up with a great explanation for why it is so bad. it's worse when you jump into a bad situation head first. then i would only have myself to blame if her problem proves to be pathological.