Good responses all, *s*.
The King of Pentacles astrologically represents Taurus (ruled by Venus), Virgo (ruled by Mercury), and Capricorn (ruled by Saturn). This King is a serious dude... 'dignity' means everything to him. In a romantic relationship, he's gonna pay... paying for his women is one of the ways in which he not only shows his loyalty, affection, and serious intention towards her, but his desire to 'own' her; to reserve her for himself. Because this 'earthy' King is so practical, it can feel at times that 'romance' is reduced to a business transaction! I should know, I'm a Virgo married to a Capricorn man! *lol*.
Alas, they are fairly reserved in showing their affection... they all like to keep such demonstrations behind closed doors. Their emotions run so deep, that they keep them close to the chest... they are terrified of exposing themselves and then being humiliated... as I said, 'diginity' means everything to them. The mature ones are faithful and loyal beyond belief... marriage is serious business to them, and most will try to keep the marriage intact when others would have flown the coop long ago.
They want to stay together not so much from the heart, but out of habit. 'Security' and 'Stability' are the key-words for the Pentacles Court. They prize this above all else. The less-mature ones might stray here and there, but they always come back... home, wife, family is one thing... a fling another. This King would never leave his wife for another woman. Like I said, he may dally, but at the end of the day, he's comin' home to 'mama', *lol*.
The down-side is that they're pretty boring. There's a price to pay for 'security' and 'stability', and that price is a lack of excitement. They're not running around putting together a romantic dinner with violins and whatnot. Once the 'romance' has been legalized into a 'marriage', they pretty much feel that task is over and move on to counting their money, *lol*. They worry a lot about money. It's so important to them, to their 'dignity', to be able to provide properly and well for their family. As such, they feel they can just put their feet up on the table and be done with all that romantic falderol, *lol*.
I've had to train my husband about this. And that's one of the nice things about this King, he 'is' trainable. Now my husband will bring me flowers once in a while, or a card, or buy me a spa-day gift card, stuff like that'; but in the beginning, I had to actually give him a written list of things he could do for me like this that would make me feel loved. And I'm the one who is really in charge of keeping the 'ooomph' in our marriage. I make sure we go to Vegas a few times a year... he likes that. And didn't realize how much he really needed it... to get away from it all... the house, the kids, the job of providing, until we started going regularly. We see a couple of shows, gamble a little, swim, get massages and just plain relax with each other.
If a woman degrades this King to the point of humiliation, and especially publically, he'll drop her in a New York-minute. They don't forgive, and they don't forget. They're not particularly vengeful, (leave that to Moon in Capricorn), they'd just as soon move on, they won't look back.
My husband had a girlfriend when he was younger that humiliated him, and he dropped her as I said they do, and for 25-years she tried to get in touch with him. His friends and family said she had come around periodically to get information about him, and see if he'd be willing to talk on the phone and whatnot just to catch-up, see what's goin' on, (not to get back together or anything like that). But, he'd have none of it.
Other Kings might say, 'hey, how ya doin'? what's been goin' on in your life?' blah, blah, blah... not the King of Pentacles. Their motto is 'don't ever darken my door again.' *lol*. That old saying, 'screw me once, shame on you; screw me twice shame on me', runs clear to the bone with them. They will never fully trust again a person that has so diminished them once... the hurt is never really gotten over.