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Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said women must see men�s love proposal and decision to marry them as a �privilege� because without that, they will �rot� away with their beauty and intelligence. The charismatic spiritual icon has therefore admonished women to be grateful to men if they choose to marry them, rather than misbehave. �It�s a privilege to be married. It�s a privilege in the time we live in when it�s seven [women] to one man�, he told his congregation Sunday in Accra. �Sister when you get married, be thankful and stop misbehaving because it�s seven to one. It doesn�t matter how pretty and beautiful and intelligent you are; until a man proposes to you, you are going to stay beautiful, pretty, intelligent, nice and whatever, and rotten�. �That�s what it is, and somebody needs to tell you because there [are] so many women out there misbehaving. You got to be told the truth. And the reason why a lot of marriages are not working is because everybody is afraid to offend women to tell them: �Come on girl, you got a good thing going, hold fast onto it, don�t misbehave and don�t lose it��. He said unlike men who can marry at virtually any age, women�s biological make up and physiology put them at a disadvantage as they grow older and, therefore, said women must appreciate it when men choose to marry them because the age pendulum tilts against them. �And somebody says: �How about the men?� They got issues too but you see, the fact of the matter is that a man can be 100 years old and marry again if he �moves�. A man can be 100 years and marry if he can �drive�. But a woman just can�t get married at a particular age. [It] gets to a place [where] everything begins to melt and you can�t marry just because you want to marry�, the founder of the Christian Action Faith Ministries explained. �It is what it is, and sometimes we don�t want to hear the truth. We get offended when the truth is said, but I have come to a place [where] I tell people that I have lost my reputation a long time ago, and so it doesn�t really matter whether you like me or you don�t like me, and I don�t preach to impress people anymore. I stopped doing that a long time ago. I deliver what I�m told to deliver, and whether you receive it or not is none of my business; it�s your business�, he said.