If you were lmc but snagged someone "old money"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dad died leaving my step mom and me with barely enough to live on. A rich man saw me at the opera and asked to be introduced. I didn't love him but agreed to marry him once he promised to release me from our marriage if love didn't materialize. I fell in love with the architect who was building our country home (and was engaged to the daughter of my husband's cousin). My husband wouldn't let me out of our marriage so the architect and I planned to run away together. The day before he was hit and killed in a foggy London street. I still left my husband but we remained married for years. I lived by teaching music lessons. One day my husband's uncle saw me at the opera (ladies, go to the opera!). The uncle grew fonder of me than he had been previously and died shortly thereafter leaving me a part of his fortune. It was enough to make me an independent woman. My husband eventually divorced me (he wanted to remarry and have children). I married his cousin, the son of the uncle who left me money AND the father of the girl whose fiancé I had planned to elope with. What can I say, life and love are messy.

And didn’t your kid fall in love with the daughter of your ex? Weird!

Close. My step daughter fell in love with the nephew of my ex. My ex and I never had kids. He did remarry and had one child he was over the moon about, so maybe he had a heart afterall. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was living with my family on the freezing cold plains of South Dakota. We had no money due to farming misfortunes and my father's unrealistic choices, but we were happy and loving. One particularly cold winter, the whole town began to run out of food and then a good-looking young man from a prosperous out-of-state farming family made a daring grocery run and saved our town.

After that, he gave me some rides on his buggy, but he was going on rides with another girl too. I told him he had to choose one or the other, so he chose me. I think he liked that I had some backbone!

You did! And you sealed the deal before SD even became a state. Guess your future DH was rich by SD Territory standards. In any case you did great and just wait until your Ayn Rand-y daughter sells the rights to your story and capitalizes TF out of it. You won't see much of THAT, though.

Who is this one?

Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her husband lost it all in SD. They moved to Arkansas to start again. Things didn't go well. His parents bought them a house before loosing everything they had (they sold the farm when they got old and invested in rice which didn't do well). But Almanzo was "old money" for the frontier and Rose definitely made bank on her mom's story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was living with my family on the freezing cold plains of South Dakota. We had no money due to farming misfortunes and my father's unrealistic choices, but we were happy and loving. One particularly cold winter, the whole town began to run out of food and then a good-looking young man from a prosperous out-of-state farming family made a daring grocery run and saved our town.

After that, he gave me some rides on his buggy, but he was going on rides with another girl too. I told him he had to choose one or the other, so he chose me. I think he liked that I had some backbone!

You did! And you sealed the deal before SD even became a state. Guess your future DH was rich by SD Territory standards. In any case you did great and just wait until your Ayn Rand-y daughter sells the rights to your story and capitalizes TF out of it. You won't see much of THAT, though.

Who is this one?

Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her husband lost it all in SD. They moved to Arkansas to start again. Things didn't go well. His parents bought them a house before loosing everything they had (they sold the farm when they got old and invested in rice which didn't do well). But Almanzo was "old money" for the frontier and Rose definitely made bank on her mom's story.

Go back and read Farmer Boy-- the Wilders were rich AF when he was a kid! They raised high-end horses, owned a huge parcel of land, sat in the biggest church pew (you had to rent those) and ate pie three meals a day. Things didn't go great for Almanzo due to his medical issues, but he was a very promising young man from a wealthy family at the time she married him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was living with my family on the freezing cold plains of South Dakota. We had no money due to farming misfortunes and my father's unrealistic choices, but we were happy and loving. One particularly cold winter, the whole town began to run out of food and then a good-looking young man from a prosperous out-of-state farming family made a daring grocery run and saved our town.

After that, he gave me some rides on his buggy, but he was going on rides with another girl too. I told him he had to choose one or the other, so he chose me. I think he liked that I had some backbone!

You did! And you sealed the deal before SD even became a state. Guess your future DH was rich by SD Territory standards. In any case you did great and just wait until your Ayn Rand-y daughter sells the rights to your story and capitalizes TF out of it. You won't see much of THAT, though.

Who is this one?

Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her husband lost it all in SD. They moved to Arkansas to start again. Things didn't go well. His parents bought them a house before loosing everything they had (they sold the farm when they got old and invested in rice which didn't do well). But Almanzo was "old money" for the frontier and Rose definitely made bank on her mom's story.

Go back and read Farmer Boy-- the Wilders were rich AF when he was a kid! They raised high-end horses, owned a huge parcel of land, sat in the biggest church pew (you had to rent those) and ate pie three meals a day. Things didn't go great for Almanzo due to his medical issues, but he was a very promising young man from a wealthy family at the time she married him.

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I agree the Wilders were rich when Almanzo was a kid, and even later when he was an adult. I don't recall if the book addresses how far back the money came from. Things didn't go well for Almanzo in SD due to weather, bad luck (their house accidentally burned down - that sucked), and mortgages (crazy high interest compared to what we see today). They lost the houses and land in SD. That's what I meant by they lost everything Almanzo had. I guess they did have $100 (a decent amount back then) which they took to Arkansas to start over on. I thought Almanzo's medical issues came up only in Arkansas and it was Laura who had medical issues in SD (does it really matter?). The medical issues are why Almanzo's parents bought a house for him and Laura in Arkansas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I met my DH when I was at Radcliffe and he was at Harvard. I am from a poor Catholic family, he comes from New England blue bloods. DH’s father disapproved of our relationship and disowned him when we got married. We lived very happily for several years but then I died of leukemia. DH and his father made up on my deathbed.

But love means never having to say you are sorry…

So glad I am not the only elder on this thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad died leaving my step mom and me with barely enough to live on. A rich man saw me at the opera and asked to be introduced. I didn't love him but agreed to marry him once he promised to release me from our marriage if love didn't materialize. I fell in love with the architect who was building our country home (and was engaged to the daughter of my husband's cousin). My husband wouldn't let me out of our marriage so the architect and I planned to run away together. The day before he was hit and killed in a foggy London street. I still left my husband but we remained married for years. I lived by teaching music lessons. One day my husband's uncle saw me at the opera (ladies, go to the opera!). The uncle grew fonder of me than he had been previously and died shortly thereafter leaving me a part of his fortune. It was enough to make me an independent woman. My husband eventually divorced me (he wanted to remarry and have children). I married his cousin, the son of the uncle who left me money AND the father of the girl whose fiancé I had planned to elope with. What can I say, life and love are messy.

And didn’t your kid fall in love with the daughter of your ex? Weird!

Close. My step daughter fell in love with the nephew of my ex. My ex and I never had kids. He did remarry and had one child he was over the moon about, so maybe he had a heart afterall. Whatever.

Who is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad died leaving my step mom and me with barely enough to live on. A rich man saw me at the opera and asked to be introduced. I didn't love him but agreed to marry him once he promised to release me from our marriage if love didn't materialize. I fell in love with the architect who was building our country home (and was engaged to the daughter of my husband's cousin). My husband wouldn't let me out of our marriage so the architect and I planned to run away together. The day before he was hit and killed in a foggy London street. I still left my husband but we remained married for years. I lived by teaching music lessons. One day my husband's uncle saw me at the opera (ladies, go to the opera!). The uncle grew fonder of me than he had been previously and died shortly thereafter leaving me a part of his fortune. It was enough to make me an independent woman. My husband eventually divorced me (he wanted to remarry and have children). I married his cousin, the son of the uncle who left me money AND the father of the girl whose fiancé I had planned to elope with. What can I say, life and love are messy.

And didn’t your kid fall in love with the daughter of your ex? Weird!

Close. My step daughter fell in love with the nephew of my ex. My ex and I never had kids. He did remarry and had one child he was over the moon about, so maybe he had a heart afterall. Whatever.

Who is this?

The Forsyte Saga season 1 (on Masterpiece, now on Amazon)