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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be happy for your own advantages in life and the things you enjoy about your spouse. Sure, I wish my spouse earned more but he probably wishes I looked like a Victoria’s Secret model (I don’t.)

Also, my dad is a retired big law partner and the grueling number of hours he worked put an enormous strain on my parents marriage. Though we had a nice life and a loving home, it was a sad relationship dynamic to be around growing up, and my dad missed a lot of his kids milestones working at a job he loathed. [/quote]

Haha, you don’t care if your spouse makes much because YOU come from a rich family. How can you miss that? I’ll bet you had DP help, fully funded education, and don’t have to worry about paying for your parents elder care?[/quote]

Yes, and? I said to be grateful for your advantages. My husband and I both came into adulthood debt free. We were each given a great head start. But our parents don’t support as adults (nor should they.) therefore- and I can’t believe I have to spell this out for you- our income determines the lifestyle we live. My dh does fine, but my income is necessary, and because he’s not “an investment banker or in big law” I don’t particularly have flexibility to stay at home with our young kids during this point in their lives, like my mom did and many spouses married to high income partners do. Instead, I’m burnt out parenting young kids while performing mediocrely in my corporate job. I’m not complaining and some people have it FAR worse than that, but others have it better, whether it’s through a high earning spouse or a lot of family money. It doesn’t help my life to be jealous of theirs, and I’m very grateful for everything I do have.

So my answer to OP is the answer to anyone who finds themselves jealous of anything- be grateful for what you have and change what you can. If OP wants to be rich, she should go to law school or get an MBA and go into finance herself. Or maybe she’ll meet her spouse at those schools, but hopefully they don’t realize she’s a gold digger. [/quote]

Jaysus-H-Christ you are incredibly obtuse! You really don't realize how whiny,out of touch, and privileged you sound. You have NO idea of what it's like not to be financially secure. But, hey, we can all just go to law school and marry rich if we didn't want to be poor .... :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: . I'm not saying being envious of women who marry rich is a good thing, but I do understand what it may feel like to wonder about it. FWIW - I grew up MC, married someone who is UMC and we live a decidedly comfortable UMC life. [/quote]

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