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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you looking for romantic partners or business partners?[/quote]

OP here. After putting myself through college and graduate school and acquiring a fulfilling and interesting policy job, I really do not want to marry some average joe making 100k a year so we can squeeze into a 500k townhouse in Vienna and take yearly vacations to OBX.

I want a SHF in Chevy Chase, private school for my kids and international vacations.

Why NOT me? Only because I am not blonde and skinny?

Its depressing. [/quote]

OP- you waited too long.  Those of us met those guys and married them by 30.

I have a Master’s Degree and work in similar field.  I have the life/husband you are looking for.  Almost all of my girlfriends do as well and the lady of us married at 33.[/quote]
I loathe this smug attitude by women who married young. They think it is some grand personal achievement and that it is some symbol that they are special or superior to other women, that they are better at life. You didn’t cure cancer or negotiate world peace, you walked down an aisle. So get over yourselves. [/quote]

Not PP and I don’t see a hint of smugness. You’re just mad because it’s a hard truth.

But I guess you have me with that last part. I do think I’m better at life. The proof is in the pudding. [/quote]

If you find your life partner young, you have a higher chance of marrying these super-successful guys. It's not an achievement - it's a choice with tradeoffs. I married young for love. My husband ended up making $$$$ in finance, and we set up this exact fancy life OP wants. The tradeoffs? I never got to have wild and free single days, kiss anyone except my husband, form a circle of close girlfriends, etc. I did build a career I love, but I was limited by having to compromise with my DH's career (location, schedule, etc). It was the right choice for me, and I am happy with it, but I am also very aware that my story isn't some magic fairytale with no downsides.

[b]By the way, we ditched the Chevy Chase life and both chose to go into lower-paying jobs we loved and live in a more diverse and healthy community. (And I mean actual diversity, not people of different colors/ethnicities all living the same exact life, helicopter parenting, and obsessing over shallow shit).[/b]

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NAILED it. Diversity, my arse.[/quote]

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