This morning I had a ding-dong arguement with my friend. I teased him about getting a woman now that his marriage is over. He retorted that if he had money he would still be with his wife. I didn’t agree as I knew that his main problems were unrelated to money although he has been going through a financial drought .
“If I were rich I could still be with my wife and satisfy myself with concubines,” was his surprising response.
Well that set the ball rolling on the topic of whether or not women need men with money, except they are gold diggers.
He contends that even when women say that the man they are looking for do not have to have money or lots of it, in practice this is not how they behave. He gave several examples of professional girls we both know and their behaviour. Although we have heard them expressly state that money is not an issue for them, when it came down to chosing a man they each ridicule men who were not even able to take them out to dinner, or have a home for themselves.
As a woman what do you think, honestly? If you are a man what has been your experience in this area?
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As a women who have been dating men from the age of 19 I have always earned more money than they. I feel its about time I found a man at my age of 48 who can pay for his own. I have always been the one who paid for dinner, movies, holidays or at least the majority share of it and now I am looking for a man that is my equal. I want a man who can hold his own, In fact I will not date another man who earns less than myself because you can not live on love alone. After all the paying I have done I am still not married and sometimes I look back and feel used, but I cannot blame anyone but myself.
I have loved a man with all my heart for over 7 years. However, he has yet been able to support me financially. I have not married him because of this very reason. It is the hardest thing I have had to live with. I agree with the above writer that one cannot live on love alone. He works at a pizza place delivering pizzas. I am a RN that makes 60,000.00/yr. He has yet to try to better himself. I have continued to stay with him. I, too, can blame noone else but myself for this because everytime I have tried to break up with him I went back to him because I loved him, but it never worked due to the finacial strain.
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