I'm single by choice, I casually date the ones that fit this description and enjoy every minute of it - as do they. You sound confident and attractive, I'm more than happy to meet you for dinner. |
I'm the PP. I think maybe my posts sound too dark and cynical. I don't think all men are cheaters or bad. I just think that wealth and power (especially in the extreme) have a corrupting influence, even on otherwise good people. I think (and I've seen from various experiences) that you combine the wealth and power with aging, and that's kind of the recipe that leads to the mistress/trophy wife stuff. I think women can also be corrupted by power and wealth and have their own aging/mortality panic-related behavior. It just takes a different form. And again, these are generalizations. There are exceptions. I'm painting with broad strokes because this is just a casual thread on an anonymous forum. I am not a particularly religious person, but one thing I do think is profound is the statement "it's nearly impossible for a rich man to get into heaven." I don't think that means that wealth is bad, but it means that wealth -- extreme wealth -- does weird things to people. That was my point about the sweet spot. (and I think that goes for a lot of things -- not just marriages.) I think that too little money can cause problems because there is always financial strain. But too much can also cause problems. I honestly believe that there is a sweet spot that is just enough so that the constant worry/tension of money doesn't tear you apart but not so much that it corrupts you or gives you a sense of elitism/entitlement. Pretty early on in my adult life, I worked around some wealthy people. And I saw a little bit of the mentality that seems to go along with that. That's a big part of what has informed my ideas above. I see some of it now, but I should have been clearer above when I said I work around it -- I'm drawing not just from current experience, but past as well. |
Hahaha you are so creepy. Not on your fucking life, dude. |
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Damn. Shot down like an animal! |
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Money attracts money.
get yourself the right address, car, purse |
You people are so out of touch. You think DC is the shit and everything else pales by comparison. $500,000 is hardly the most expensive house in town in the Hagerstown area. |
| It's a little over rated especially as you get older. Now that kids are grown, seeing a fair number of divorces and there are a staggering number of high functioning ((and not so high functioning) alcoholics in this demo. |
I agree with this. I am in the comfortable spot 600k, 4.5m net worth but not wealthy and this is largely my social circle- here marriages tend to be of intellectual equals and stable. I know 3 couples where the net worth is in the 50 - 100m range. 2 of those have had affairs (on both sides). No clue about the third. |
We are comfortable-ish, but not quite in your league and see the same thing. Stable marriages of intellectual equals -- even if the wife is at home, it's likely that the couple met when they had equal standing in the workplace. I know several couples in the big leagues. The ones who came from already-rich, or at least solidly UMC families seem to be a lot more stable than the ones where there has been a dramatic and rapid change in circumstances. Definitely a lot of affairs, on both sides. A lot of inappropriate second marriages, a lot of fucked up kids. "Snagging" a rich man can mean a whole lot of things. If you're looking for a good, solid relationship, I don't recommend intentionally going the trophy route. |
| As some poster have noted, 50 is the magic number. When the guys, or their wives, hit 50 they have their mid-life crisis and feel that they deserve a hot and fun new model. |
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Educated men tend to marry later now. They are more comfortable in their own skins and have a more complete idea of the qualities they are looking for in a life partner (i.e., being hot isn't everything). |
| Honestly, snag him (or her) when he (or she) is your classmate in college, or preferably, graduate school. Invest your dating time and efforts in potential, and then help your significant other to develop their full potential and succeed, while they do the same for you. Though it is, of course, acceptable for one of you to take a backseat to the other's (husband's or wife's) career, so long as you are both personally fine with that decision. |
But the younger wives are educated, successful women. Just younger. |