Do you ever regret not marrying for the "lifestyle"?

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

+1

This is the way. Ladies, teach your daughters this so they have options and are not stuck working 50 hour weeks plus doing all the house/kid stuff later on and can afford to be choosy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

+1

This is the way. Ladies, teach your daughters this so they have options and are not stuck working 50 hour weeks plus doing all the house/kid stuff later on and can afford to be choosy.

+2 but he has to be someone you can love and has earning potential AND good character. If you find all these in a man, snatch him up even if you are just 23.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

It’s funny how much grief Susan patron (Princeton mom) got when she said this years ago.

She was proven right

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I don’t know how “smart” they are if they base their whole lives and future on some young guy instead of working on their own potential.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

Until a younger “smart” girl locks him down again in his 40’s and the original smart girl has no life or career without him.

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Anonymous wrote:In the 2020s I think you will start to see an acceleration of downwardly mobile whites move to Europe.

Earning 1500 euros a month in a small walkable town in Italy (like Verona) is “nicer” than being lmc/working poor in the USA.

This is about as clueless as Biden administration officials telling the poors that if they don't like the price of gas, they should buy an EV (average EV price $66,000).

If your life is going downhill in America, you are certainly not going to be able to afford a move to Europe.

Not true.

Downwardly mobile whites where the parents were umc professionals but the kids are lmc/working precáriat will be better off in Europe.

The main difference is cheap/downscale neighborhoods In Western Europe are a lot more palatable to live in than in the us.

Being downwardly mobile/poor comes with a host of headaches that you don’t get in Western Europe regarding safety, food supply, Walkability etc.

I the us, the issue with being poor/downwardly mobile isn’t that you can’t buy material things like wealthier people can.

It is that you end up getting stuck in awful neighborhoods/schools that are just more dangerous and unpleasant in day to day life.

This is going to be the new normal for first time homeowners who aren’t already intergenerationally loaded and didn’t buy before 2021.

Aren't demographics and demand and supply of houses going to put downward pressure on houses? Baby boomers have shown a remarkable ability to overstay their welcome, but corpses don't pay property taxes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I want to know how these girls know who to look for so early?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No I don’t. I read that “what’s it like to have a happy marriage” thread and I don’t know how life would have been different had I married somebody else, but I know for sure that I have a happy marriage with my husband and that’s all that matters.

But you should recognize that your situation is common as a result of both Boomer political policies and the fact that Boomers don’t have enough money to retire. Yes, some Gen. Xers and millennials have made it but your situation is the norm. This is the economy, not you or your husband.

Those generalizations are so weird. All the boomers I know are retired. The ones that aren't it's because either they love their job or they don't want to be at home with their retired spouse all the time. I'm a retired boomer and I never made more than 60K in my life and for the first ten years of married life I was a SAHM. My exH is retired and he was a house painter. We are both living happy retirement lives. I'm pretty sure you are not the expert on boomers, politics, the economy, retirement or anything else.

I'm a boomer who is 9 years away from my Social Security full retirement age of 67.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I don’t know how “smart” they are if they base their whole lives and future on some young guy instead of working on their own potential.

+1. I know one woman who cracked the code and is the happiest woman I know. She’s an entrepreneur who found a way to make a ton of money while working fairly limited hours, her H is a SAHD who homeschools the kids, they all moved to the Caribbean. She’s SO happy she gets to work and spend time with her family, dad is happy he doesn’t have to work, kids are all happy. She’s in her 40s but has the vibrancy of a 20 year old, even wears these adorable, colorful dresses that most 40 year olds would refuse to be caught in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I want to know how these girls know who to look for so early?

They troll certain fraternity houses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I don’t know how “smart” they are if they base their whole lives and future on some young guy instead of working on their own potential.

It’s smart to have a smart partner locked down early in life. They have a rich, loving and resourceful partner to build their future with while their dumb friends party away their looks and wind up alone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick is to marry someone you love who you know has potential. I didn't know this at the time, but in retrospect, I can see now that you have to snag such a man in college or your very young twenties when you are still at the height of your youth/beauty. Pick a guy who has great earning potential (> 500k) and who you could also love.

Yes, the hot nice guys with potential always seem to be born with a girlfriend. So annoying.

Because smart girls lock them down early.

I don’t know how “smart” they are if they base their whole lives and future on some young guy instead of working on their own potential.

It’s smart to have a smart partner locked down early in life. They have a rich, loving and resourceful partner to build their future with while their dumb friends party away their looks and wind up alone.

And they are usually one-dimensional, uninteresting and lacking in substance as a result of their lives being 100% based on the whims of another human being and never building or achieving anything on their own or for themselves. And, after all of that, they often “wind up alone” too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the 2020s I think you will start to see an acceleration of downwardly mobile whites move to Europe.

Earning 1500 euros a month in a small walkable town in Italy (like Verona) is “nicer” than being lmc/working poor in the USA.

Yes, because Europe will gladly open up their borders for these people.

Yes, with their declining birthrates, they will be happy to open their borders to white, Christian educated Americans, especially those who have ancestral roots on those countries.

And don’t speak the language. You know, just like how Americans welcome educated Christians to our country who don’t speak English or speak English with a non-British accent?