We hear about women who marry wealthier men all the time. But eyebrows get raised when the reverse happens, when the man marries the girl from a wealthy family and enjoys all the perks, that’s the kind of stuff that really gets people talking around here.
I know a girl who worked as a teller in a bank that married a guy so wealthy (who happened to also be a client btw), she quit her job the minute their plane touched down from the honeymoon, she didn’t even give a months’ notice, and mind you no one really cared, it was the most natural next step for her to take before she assumed her position as a high roller in society.
But I also know a guy who married a girl whose daddy owns one of the most lucrative construction businesses in the Middle East. While most men would feel emasculated at the mere thought of wedding a woman from an entirely different social standing, it didn’t bother him in the least, in fact it may as well have even been the deal breaker. His wife’s parents financed the entire destination wedding-extravaganza, gave them a million-something dollar apartment in one of the most high-end districts of Beirut, threw in a couple of sports cars here and there and, he even got a senior position at her father’s company. Everyone just loves to discuss how he’s “milking his sugar mamma”, how he has “no dignity”, how he “sold his soul” to his in-laws, a guy that made his way to the top by falling in love with the right girl. But the truth is he really does work hard, takes himself very seriously at the workplace and boasts about the profits he’s reaping in for the company. In his eyes, everyone’s a winner.
No matter how happy and in love those two may seem, all people do is hate on him. While the rest of the men are struggling to make ends meet, he married his millions. But what do you think, why it it ok for a woman to marry rich and not for a man?
I don’t think people should marry each other on the basis of money PERIOD. Money comes and goes. The important thing is being in love and being friends with your other half through thick and thin. Don’t you think so?
Haha… very thought provoking question
To me, it doesn’t really matter.
Ivy, serious question, would you marry someone who earned half or 1/10th of what you earn?
I dated a man for almost four years, woman before me made over 100 thou a year, I strugglec to make money, he left me and in six months married another wealthy woman, he had lost all his money in stock market and likes to gamble
Wow, Joseph, you’re not a sexist scumbag at all, are you?
I’ve been married twice, and neither husband made more than me for most of the years we were together. The second husband FINALLY made more than I do after 15 years of marriage, but ONLY because I became disabled and could no longer work!
When we were first married, he didn’t work at all because he didn’t speak the local language where my established job was. I couldn’t get a transfer right away, so, rather than acting like a sniveling baby who had his testicles removed, he accepted that, for the time being, finding a job just wasn’t in the cards. He made the best of it, just like we women do when we can’t work, either because you nitwit men think we should stay at home, or because the job situation is just bad.
When you don’t let moronic cultural brainwashing about women and men’s roles polluting your good sense, you find out it doesn’t really matter who does what, or who comes into the marriage with what. You’re both in it together, so don’t let stupid ‘tradition’ tell you what you should or shouldn’t have or be doing.