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Re "PP, your post smacks of envy"

Not sure what you are suggesting that I envy? If it is OP's lifestyle - not now or ever.

If it is the women who don't work but are financially supported by their husbands - not even close. We both retired in our forties and enjoy a life of leisure. We worked hard over the years and between a combination of shrewd financial decisions and some luck we were able to retire early. Our kids are settled and well employed. We just enjoy life - a life of comparative luxury as some of our friends suggest we have.

I just find the judgmental b-s about OP's lifestyle over the top including those who do their pop psychoanalysis about what ails OP from her purported lack of self-esteem to her family upbringing.

But you are right about one thing ..... DCUM is full of those who pontificate and I am sure quite a few of those doing so are "kept" whether married or not.[/quote]

Your tone belies your claim of "not even close" because you condemn women with "nannys" (your misspelling, BTW), housekeepers and salon visits without knowing the intimate details of these strangers' lives. If you're happy, good for you, but don't kid yourself. You're as judgmental and prone to pontificating as everybody else.[/quote]

I don't condemn anything that other women have, least of all having a nanny. We used to have nannies at one stage in our lives when our children were young. I don't view that as being a status symbol. I am not even critical about the lives that non-working wives have because that is between them and their respective husbands. All I am saying is that the institution of marriage does not make the OP any more or any less than a non-working wife who relies on the largesse of her husband.

To those who say that OP's benefactor could dump her at any time when he finds a new model, you are certainly right about that but that holds true of the non-working wife. And heaven knows, that happens often enough when the successful husband who is pandered to at work by young attractive women decides it is time to move on. [b]Yes, the wife has some marital rights to the assets and to that extent she has an edge over the OP [/b]but let us not kid ourselves that being married offers any sort of surety against a husband moving on to a younger more attractive woman than his wife. [/quote]

No the husband could potentially move on to a younger model in any marriage.  But wives do have claim to marital assets, spousal support, child support and often remain in the family home.  You insist on drawing these comparisons to the Op's situation and that of a non-working spouse.  It's NOT the same.  [/quote]

I just acknowledged that right exists - which OP does not have.[/quote]

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