Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The problem with most sugar “relationships” is that they’re temporary and artificial. Few girls think about networking and how the relationship can pay off in the long run.
My favorite niece got a job a couple of years ago in a prominent research lab after graduating from a T-40 college, to get some experience before med or grad school. She never expected that the 50+ Director is tall, trim and had a full head of hair. But over the months working there she learned how unhappy he was, researching critical medical breakthroughs while his SAHM wife bugged him about the kids’ school things and her wanting to start her career but the kids’ emotional needs and her missing her Dad who passed away etc.
So my niece got to know him over the months of working together and happy hours and lunches and conferences, and they both realized how much they enjoyed each other’s company. And for those who think yeah right he’s stringing her along, the wife found photos on the cloud where they’re clearly thrilled to be spending PLATONIC time together. Wife issued an ultimatum, and HE LEFT the wife for my niece. So it’s real, NOT. a transaction. My niece and the Director are still together and just waiting for the divorce settlement so that they can be open with the kids and don’t pay the wife anything more than necessary.
Was my niece “sugar”? NO. He did not pay one dime to my niece beyond the LAB paying salary and benefits. My niece is far better off as she has built a successful career right out of school AND has a man who is far more established and mature than boys her own age.
Will it last forever? Will they get married? Who knows? But the relationship fits right now, and without any sneaky private exchange of funds. Everything is above board. He gets the vitality and respect he’s earned, and she gets the success and happiness that SHE’S earned. THAT’S how so-called May-December relationships should work: mutual sweetness.
The lab director sounds gross. Takes for granted his stay at home wife who enabled him to get ahead in his career while having a family because she is handling everything at home for him. Because he devalues her work at home, he has no respect for her. And cheats on her emotionally with a younger, childless woman. Does your niece think it’s going to work out long term with this narcissist?