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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cost of being married to someone you don't love seems so much higher than the cost of being married to someone who isn't rich. [/quote]

This. Nearly all the divorces in my tiny all girls’ HS class are women who married “up” into the UC or married laterally to a climber in the UMC. None of the women who married down are divorced. [/quote]

Men are as faithful as their options. [/quote]

I cannot agree with this. I grew up in a world of private schools, including no shortage of girls' schools. There is a persistent pattern of nicely groomed girls always ending up married to nicely groomed men with good prospects and incomes. Sometimes the girl becomes a housewife, other times she has her own career. Most marriages are still solid. A few failed. But no one, and I repeat, no one from this particular personality type was marrying repairmen or police officers or even midlevel government employees.

But the girls who you might have said married down have largely ended up in failed marriages because life expectations ended up being too different to reconcile once the bloom of the marriage fizzled out.

Virtually all, and I do mean *all* the girls who went on to have good careers married men who also have at a minimum, very solid careers. [/quote]

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