Sick of rich husband! Want to start working! There, feel better. Grass is always greener babe.

As my mom would say, you can love a rich man as well as you can a poor one, so go for the rich one. My first DH was a disaster in the financial arena, so I made sure my 2nd marriage was for love and money.

The first time you marry for love, the second time for love and money.

I understand! I'm a husband who is currently having a stressful time at work and would really love to be married to a rich wife who make enough that I could stay home with the kids (I'm actually an excellent housedad). But we're in the classic situation where we've built a life around the double-income, so another 20 years at the grindstone for me.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. i'm SINGLE!

This attitude isn't going to help you find a rich husband, they can smell it when your goal is to mooch off them. Plus, most of the women who end up with rich husbands married them before they were rich, it's a hit or miss thing.

+1 I have a rich husband but I met him when we were both in college and broke. I was with him the whole time he was working hard (and I was working hard) to make it in his profession and I put up with all the late nights, missed vacations, and working holidays that it took for him to be successful. Life is pretty great now and we still have a very happy and loving marriage. I don't think you can get the same thing if you marry a guy after he has done all the work.

So how does one spot a (potential) rich husband ? and not just the average hardworking stable young guy ? It's a skill I did not possess (and still don't) to pass on to my daughter. I married twice, both times to stable average guys who had the same earning potentials as me. So we both have to work to lead a comfortable middle class lifestyle in this high cost area. Also, my husband would not be happy if I quit working (even if we adjust our lifestyle), he does not want the pressure of being the only income earner.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. i'm SINGLE!

This attitude isn't going to help you find a rich husband, they can smell it when your goal is to mooch off them. Plus, most of the women who end up with rich husbands married them before they were rich, it's a hit or miss thing.

+1 I have a rich husband but I met him when we were both in college and broke. I was with him the whole time he was working hard (and I was working hard) to make it in his profession and I put up with all the late nights, missed vacations, and working holidays that it took for him to be successful. Life is pretty great now and we still have a very happy and loving marriage. I don't think you can get the same thing if you marry a guy after he has done all the work.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is not rich, but very well to do. I quit my job and lunched every day for a year. One day, the plumber was scheduled to come. I was so drunk at lunch that I had to call my husband and tell him to reschedule. My only job was to pick up the kids from school. I didn't really cook or clean. My husband was happier than a pig in slop.

Ok, I had a blast, but honestly, after about 6 months of shopping, working out and lunching, I was bored to death. I went back to work.

Maybe if I quit after my kids were born or when they were little, it would have been different. My kids are older so I didn't have a lot of responsibility.

couldn't you just have volunteered or did non-profit, ngo, art gallery, fun+sexy "work" and still 'lunched'?

Seriously. What a waste of 6 months!

Actually, it sounds really fun!! And when it wasn't fun anymore, she stopped doing it. Sounds pretty awesome to me.

I begrudge no one a six month break with lots of lunches if they can get it! Why not? Life is short. Be happy.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. i'm SINGLE!

This attitude isn't going to help you find a rich husband, they can smell it when your goal is to mooch off them. Plus, most of the women who end up with rich husbands married them before they were rich, it's a hit or miss thing.

OP here. i'm SINGLE!

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is not rich, but very well to do. I quit my job and lunched every day for a year. One day, the plumber was scheduled to come. I was so drunk at lunch that I had to call my husband and tell him to reschedule. My only job was to pick up the kids from school. I didn't really cook or clean. My husband was happier than a pig in slop.

Ok, I had a blast, but honestly, after about 6 months of shopping, working out and lunching, I was bored to death. I went back to work.

Maybe if I quit after my kids were born or when they were little, it would have been different. My kids are older so I didn't have a lot of responsibility.

couldn't you just have volunteered or did non-profit, ngo, art gallery, fun+sexy "work" and still 'lunched'?

Seriously. What a waste of 6 months!

Anonymous wrote:My husband is not rich, but very well to do. I quit my job and lunched every day for a year. One day, the plumber was scheduled to come. I was so drunk at lunch that I had to call my husband and tell him to reschedule. My only job was to pick up the kids from school. I didn't really cook or clean. My husband was happier than a pig in slop.

Ok, I had a blast, but honestly, after about 6 months of shopping, working out and lunching, I was bored to death. I went back to work.

Maybe if I quit after my kids were born or when they were little, it would have been different. My kids are older so I didn't have a lot of responsibility.

couldn't you just have volunteered or did non-profit, ngo, art gallery, fun+sexy "work" and still 'lunched'?

My husband is not rich, but very well to do. I quit my job and lunched every day for a year. One day, the plumber was scheduled to come. I was so drunk at lunch that I had to call my husband and tell him to reschedule. My only job was to pick up the kids from school. I didn't really cook or clean. My husband was happier than a pig in slop.

Ok, I had a blast, but honestly, after about 6 months of shopping, working out and lunching, I was bored to death. I went back to work.

Maybe if I quit after my kids were born or when they were little, it would have been different. My kids are older so I didn't have a lot of responsibility.

What OP fails to mention is that DH most likely wasn't rich when they met. They probably both were working and it was a long slog to get where they are today. Perhaps the ones that are complaining have bad attitudes and are elitist. Most of the ones I know are happy and pretty decent folks.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I used to think getting a rich husband would be a one-way, nonstop ticket to happy town. But the more I read threads on these forums, the more I get the impression that the SAH wives of wealth men are not only incredibly unhappy, but they're almost a bit soulless. I wonder if they were always like that or if the money changed them, but there's an incredible lack of empathy, a sense of entitlement, and an ugly elitism that pervades their posts.

If that's what a wealthy husband gets a girl, maybe I'm better of with my working-class, sincere, down-to-earth guy and my humble little existence.

As if all working women are happy and fulfilled and don't have issues. I know plenty of disgruntled working mothers, who are struggling to juggle home and jobs, and are always tired and bitter. A life of a working class woman, especially the one who has to also do most of the household work, will age you quick. Not all women who work, do this for self-fulfillment and love their jobs, I bet you most do the grind just for a paycheck.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sicking of working too. Everyone hated working at my last job and it's the same thing at my new job. Where are the fun jobs with the happy people???

fun jobs with happy people have extremely high barriers to entry and pay like shit because they can get away with it.

For example, these days getting a job in a front office of a baseball team (the part of the team that does player deals, trades, scouting, etc)....a 'cool, sexy, fun, happy' place for the most part over the last 10 years has been flooded by ivy leaguers/stanford types willing to take massive pay cuts for zero job stability just for the 'fun' and prestige to work at a MLB team. I mean harvard and penn JD's giving up 200k+ jobs to take 50k jobs (guys and girls are queuing up for these jobs).

When I was interviewing with the Washington Nationals you had extremely overqualified Harvard law students dying to 'break in' and giving up summer associate-ships at BigLaw in the process.

I'm sure the environment for fashion journalism is like that as well..with the additional requirement of having to be attractive (something that's a lot out of your hands).

Convert to Judiasm (if you're not already Jewish) and move to Long Island. All the women here don't work and have rich husbands (many of them have advanced degree's from Ivy League schools) and most are much better looking then their husbands....