If you were lmc but snagged someone "old money"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose family had some money, but who managed to marry into BIG money. Like HUGE old money. She was a preschool teacher and met this older, awkward guy from a really rich family. They were pressuring him to get married and settle down. My friend was really young and smitten. They ended up getting married and even having two kids. But it was a disaster. Her rich husband’s family was messed up and her husband was still in love with his old flame. They finally got divorced, and of course, she did well in the settlement. Tragically, her life ended in a car crash when she was with a new, rich boyfriend. Every time I hear a particular Elton John song, I think fondly of my friend.

Old money meets older money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose family had some money, but who managed to marry into BIG money. Like HUGE old money. She was a preschool teacher and met this older, awkward guy from a really rich family. They were pressuring him to get married and settle down. My friend was really young and smitten. They ended up getting married and even having two kids. But it was a disaster. Her rich husband’s family was messed up and her husband was still in love with his old flame. They finally got divorced, and of course, she did well in the settlement. Tragically, her life ended in a car crash when she was with a new, rich boyfriend. Every time I hear a particular Elton John song, I think fondly of my friend.

Well done!
The Spencers are so much older money than the Windsors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just a simple florist when I met my future wealthy husband during speech lessons. I became a part of the family and one thing led to another.

This was already posted, Eliza. Do try and keep up, there’s a loverly girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ones I recognized were:

Cinderella
Pretty Woman
Maid in Manhattan
Beverly Hillbillies
Notting Hill
An Officer and a Gentleman
Titanic
Jane Eyre
The Prince & Me (had to look that up)
Flashdance
Dirty Dancing

I know I missed some, or some of you have had very strange lives.

Frozen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just a simple florist when I met my future wealthy husband during speech lessons. I became a part of the family and one thing led to another.

This was already posted, Eliza. Do try and keep up, there’s a loverly girl.

LOL

[Anonymous]

I just ran into her on the bus when I was 6 years old. We ate corn from her daddy’s cornfield behind the big barn. Whenever I got older I worked on her daddy’s farm and watched her after dark. When I got older I wrote her name on her daddy’s water tower. It was a romance created in John Deere Heaven.

[Anonymous]

There’s LMC, and then there’s vows of poverty — I was studying to be a nun. The convent sent me to work as a governess for this grumpy old sea captain, who was all alone with seven children. (Well, alone except for the butler, the housekeeper, a mooching friend and his scheming beard, and an inordinate number of telegrams.) We fell in love, I figured out how to be a stepmom, and we put together a pretty successful recording group. Life was good until a coup sent us fleeing over the border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. It’s been five years now and my life has gotten so much better and I do love him, but he can be kind of a jerk and takes credit for all my successes. I think I’m ready to live my life in my own. It just something I must do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was a hired boy on her farm. She inconceivably married some guy with a title, but I was able to get her back because there was some technicality with the mawidge ceremony that didn’t make it legal.

💀😂💀😂💀😂

[Anonymous]

I followed my ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School (what, like it's hard?) but he ended up being a jerk and after some shenanigans, I fell in love with one of my TAs (he was the LMC one, I was rich).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ones I recognized were:

Cinderella
Pretty Woman
Maid in Manhattan
Beverly Hillbillies
Notting Hill
An Officer and a Gentleman
Titanic
Jane Eyre
The Prince & Me (had to look that up)
Flashdance
Dirty Dancing

I know I missed some, or some of you have had very strange lives.

Frozen

Princess Bride
Arthur
Match Point
Kate Middleton
Princess Di
Pretty in Pink

[Anonymous]

Me. I'm from a tiny Texas town, and worked hard at modeling and dancing to try to make a name for myself. I landed a coveted spot in a prestigious men's magazine. And a huge modeling gig for a company famous for their jeans. I was doing ok for myself, and then I fell head over heels for a man who just happened to be a billionaire!. Not that I cared about his money (what can I say, I have a thing for hot great grandfatherly guys), but when he died I had to fight hard for the money he promised me.

I experienced a lot of trauma in my life, didn't know how to surround myself with good people, and passed some of my issues onto my son. I'm sad to report things didn't end well for us and our rags to riches story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I married rich, and my life was pretty perfect, sailing around the world on the family yacht. My spouse was kind of high maintenance, but luckily for me, she fell overboard in some coastal podunk town in oregon and got amnesia, so I was able to abandon her in the small town hospital. Now I sail the world with a bunch of hot babes in 80s bikinis. Life has never been better!

Interesting because my spouse had amnesia when we got together but we built a mini golf course together and then eventually she recovered her memory and it turned out she was rich!

OP back with an update: Uh, so I lost everything in the divorce. HOWEVER, it was the kick in the pants I needed to become a workaholic. I moved to Connecticut, started selling insurance, and married this super classy lady: DAR member, charity work every week, and so imperious she can't keep a maid. Our 16 year old daughter has a rebellious streak, but I think she'll settle down after her upcoming debutante party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ones I recognized were:

Cinderella
Pretty Woman
Maid in Manhattan
Beverly Hillbillies
Notting Hill
An Officer and a Gentleman
Titanic
Jane Eyre
The Prince & Me (had to look that up)
Flashdance
Dirty Dancing

I know I missed some, or some of you have had very strange lives.

Frozen

Princess Bride
Arthur
Match Point
Kate Middleton
Princess Di
Pretty in Pink

Legally Blonde

[Anonymous]

I was whisked away to live with my mother in London when war broke out on the European continent. Managed to get a degree at Cambridge, where I cultivated my skills as as the perfect dinner guest, qualifying me to secure a spot as lapdog to an oil magnate. That positioned me to meet DW, an American utility heiress. Not sure why she took to me; her previous DH was a prince. She did ask me to add a "Von" to my name to make me seem an aristocrat, and of course I obliged.

She was forgiving over my minor affairs here and there and that small matter of my father's collaboration with the Nazis. And I was forgiving of her propensity to experiment with prescription drugs. I am just waiting for the unpleasantness of her last indulgence in her hobby to blow over and resume my life as the perfect dinner guest.