I married the wrong guy...should have been the hedge fund guy

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(Sounds like your husband did not do too well either!)

Her husband would trade her for the hedge fund guy's wife in a heartbeat.

Likely this harpy did any number of things when she was dating him that his wife would not do (because she has too much self-respect) and he calls or texts when getting together with his old gang (no offense, Ms. Harpy) of schoolmates and they start wondering if she is working the happy hour shift at the Paper Moon.

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In other news outside of upper NW, 65,000 are dead and 30 million unemployed...,

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. They were both smart, ambitious and I stuck w the DC lawyer. Meanwhile I’m sitting in my house in NW DC while the other guy I could have married now lives in Palm Springs, 1/ 2 block from the beach. I really screws that up.

what a gem you are! Your husband is so lucky to have you. lol

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. They were both smart, ambitious and I stuck w the DC lawyer. Meanwhile I’m sitting in my house in NW DC while the other guy I could have married now lives in Palm Springs, 1/ 2 block from the beach. I really screws that up.

There is no beach near Palm Springs. It’s a bone dry area.

One minute ago I agreed with you. Now I have learned there is a second sneaky Palm Springs tucked in amongst Walmarts..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Springs,_Florida

This same wiki says that it's not a high earning village, average resident age is young. Its not a town rich people buy nice vacation homes in. Why did the hedge fund guy buy here? It makes no sense.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the village was $36,026, and the median income for a family was $42,430. Males had a median income of $30,920 versus $26,106 for females. The per capita income for the village was $18,763. About 4.9% of families and 7.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.2% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.

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Anonymous wrote:Troll post. Nobody is this stupid

No idea if this post is real but the scenario is super common. Mid life crisis, marriage is boring, people stop having sex, hedge fund guy is killing it but his wife probably isn't sleeping with him either so he is cheating like crazy. Easy pickings is the old flame who is also bored and nostalgic for the hot 20s sex they used to have. BTDT. Tale as old as time

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. They were both smart, ambitious and I stuck w the DC lawyer. Meanwhile I’m sitting in my house in NW DC while the other guy I could have married now lives in Palm Springs, 1/ 2 block from the beach. I really screws that up.

You'd screw up hedge fund guy too and you'd never allow him to live 1/2 block from the beach. You'd ef up your own fantasy.

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My mother wanted me to marry a lawyer who I had grown up with and dated in the midwest. He would have made a perfectly nice but boring husband. When she met my now husband he was so different from the lawyer my mother thought I was crazy. The lawyer is the guy you should marry!!! So I married the different guy and he has been incredibly successful and as loving a husband one could ask for. The lawyer - he got married then divorced after 25 plus years and then married a woman with my first name which is not a normal name. He's never left the town in the midwest where he grew up and we have lived all over the country.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother wanted me to marry a lawyer who I had grown up with and dated in the midwest. He would have made a perfectly nice but boring husband. When she met my now husband he was so different from the lawyer my mother thought I was crazy. The lawyer is the guy you should marry!!! So I married the different guy and he has been incredibly successful and as loving a husband one could ask for. The lawyer - he got married then divorced after 25 plus years and then married a woman with my first name which is not a normal name. He's never left the town in the midwest where he grew up and we have lived all over the country.

You flatter yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you become a hedge fund manager yourself so you could buy your own beach house?

Because I’m good at what I do already. This has nothing to do with my career.

But you can't afford a Palm Springs house?

How do you know if we cannot afford home in Palm Prongs? We could. But we cannot move there any time soon because of our jobs in DC. . We could live in NYC or CT, , but that’s not so appealing right now. Marrying the DC lawyer was the safe bet at the time. The bottom has fallen out of the legal industry and it turns out my husband, while a top partner, works in a firm where people will never, ever leave and the executive committee members will not push them out.

My DH is a DC lawyer turned hedge fund manager. Risk on both sides but he projected the DC lawyer bubble way before anyone else did and made the transition at the right time. I admire his ability to always be a maverick and ahead of the curve. Although right now isn’t a great time for some hedge fund managers either.

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I call troll. Either that or OP is not a native English speaker or an idiot. Lamenting her life but doesn’t know the difference between a Palm Springs and Palm Beach. I call BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you become a hedge fund manager yourself so you could buy your own beach house?

Because I’m good at what I do already. This has nothing to do with my career.

But you can't afford a Palm Springs house?

How do you know if we cannot afford home in Palm Prongs? We could. But we cannot move there any time soon because of our jobs in DC. . We could live in NYC or CT, , but that’s not so appealing right now. Marrying the DC lawyer was the safe bet at the time. The bottom has fallen out of the legal industry and it turns out my husband, while a top partner, works in a firm where people will never, ever leave and the executive committee members will not push them out.

Why is everyone panicking about the legal profession? They will be busier than ever. Anyway, I married the wrong guy too, although I don’t have a better candidate I can point to like you do. I married the only guy who ever really wanted to marry me. I have two exes whom I was madly in love with, but they both dumped me. They are very successful, have tons of money, and their wives live in beautiful homes. I am so jealous, and it is OK for you to be too. Don’t let anyone here guilt you and tell you that you should have made your own money. Most of them didn’t and they would be just as pissed off as we are had they not married or inherited it.

PP. You’re an idiot if you think BigLaw will be the same after this. It will be way worse than 2008-2009 and the effects will last twice as long .

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you become a hedge fund manager yourself so you could buy your own beach house?

Because I’m good at what I do already. This has nothing to do with my career.

But you can't afford a Palm Springs house?

How do you know if we cannot afford home in Palm Prongs? We could. But we cannot move there any time soon because of our jobs in DC. . We could live in NYC or CT, , but that’s not so appealing right now. Marrying the DC lawyer was the safe bet at the time. The bottom has fallen out of the legal industry and it turns out my husband, while a top partner, works in a firm where people will never, ever leave and the executive committee members will not push them out.

Why is everyone panicking about the legal profession? They will be busier than ever. Anyway, I married the wrong guy too, although I don’t have a better candidate I can point to like you do. I married the only guy who ever really wanted to marry me. I have two exes whom I was madly in love with, but they both dumped me. They are very successful, have tons of money, and their wives live in beautiful homes. I am so jealous, and it is OK for you to be too. Don’t let anyone here guilt you and tell you that you should have made your own money. Most of them didn’t and they would be just as pissed off as we are had they not married or inherited it.

PP. You’re an idiot if you think BigLaw will be the same after this. It will be way worse than 2008-2009 and the effects will last twice as long .

Not in labor and employment law.