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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the PP who said: "I don't know anyone who married for money, but I do know several couples that won't divorce because of it."

I wonder what "marrying for money" really means to the original poster. Do they mean marry someone [i]only [/i]for money or only not to have to go to work? Also, money is relative. Some people think low to mid six figures is "money" or a woman not having to work is "money"; some people have a different definition of how much money is enough.

I married someone who makes not much more than I do, but we both do well. Neither of us probably would have married the other person without taking this into consideration--we both worry about money as part of our personality although we have enough. Marriage is not passion (love is, but they don't always go hand in hand...or at least the initial passion fades into companionate love, which is normal and common). It is more like a business relationship. He would have not married someone who wanted to be a SAHM. I would not have married someone who did not make at least as much as me. I joke with people that he married me for my 401k because I have a little more than him even though he earns more than I do. We don't spend a lot of money (we don't have designer things). Our money is in investments not on our bodies or in our garage. We are savers.

If ideal love and marriage go together, all the power to people who have this. But sometimes, people end of being more practical when it comes to marriage. At the same time, I don't respect golddiggers at all.[/quote]

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