Strangers by Belle Burden

[Anonymous]

Just finished reading the memoir & the recent New Yorker article.

I’m left wondering a few things…

How often this sort of thing happens at this level of society. There’s an assumed competence that comes with success but maybe that’s unearned.

How best to prepare my DD against this type of “abuse”, when we have much less (family money) to shield her from complete ruin?

Is it true what they say about how relationships don’t work where the woman earns/inherits significantly more?

Anyway just some musings not related to schools that I want to bring to the group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just finished reading the memoir & the recent New Yorker article.

I’m left wondering a few things…

How often this sort of thing happens at this level of society. There’s an assumed competence that comes with success but maybe that’s unearned.

How best to prepare my DD against this type of “abuse”, when we have much less (family money) to shield her from complete ruin?

Is it true what they say about how relationships don’t work where the woman earns/inherits significantly more?

Anyway just some musings not related to schools that I want to bring to the group.

She was horribly naive. It would not have been difficult or odd for her to take minimal precautions. No sympathy here.

[Anonymous]

She was desperate to marry someone of similar background and was willing to do anything to make it happen.

The great gatsby is the best book written on the topic. I don’t think her story is relatable to normal people.

[Anonymous]

There are 2 other threads on this.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1309617.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1316638.page

[Anonymous]

There was recently a follow up article in the New Yorker. The reporter dug through the divorce documents. It turns out Belle was left with 10s of millions of dollars of her own, and she greatly exaggerated the financial "devastation" in her memoir.