Comments on: Marry for Money, Not Love

By: francine

francine — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:54:35 +0000

For your friend who prefers to marry for money and be a kept man and Frank’s emal…he is leaving himself wide open for disrespect in the process. In the end, a woman who prefers love and to be loved genuinely will not buy love. If we only wanted assholes, there’s more than one of them out there:)

Cheers and Happy Thoughts,

Francine

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:54:53 +0000

“Marry for money, pay the rest of your life.” Short story: I know someone who married for money. A woman worth, $2-3 Million before her father died and about $16 Million after. He showed up at my house one evening (after walking over a mile to my house) and said, “These women say things that they shouldn’t to their husbands.” He then went on to explain that his wife had just told him that “If I would have known that he was going to such a ‘Fat F**king Pig,’I never would have married you.” He then asked me whether my wife ever said anything like that to me. I said, No; my wife loves me. I may not have the money that my friend has, but I don’t have to eat s**t everyday for the rest of my life. Nuff said.

By: Cindy M

Cindy M — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:06:07 +0000

I wonder what’s the word “love” really mean, anyway? My definition of the word now is far different than it was back about 25 years ago. When I was 28, I married a guy 15 years older than me. Long story short, if you want some peace, and contentment and bits of happiness here and there, far better in my book if you have a good bit in common and similar mindset with your potential marriage partner and be good buddies with a healthy sense of responsibility and duty. That’s what I think of when I here the word “love” now.

By: Heather H

Heather H — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:11:17 +0000

Put yourself in more situations where there are people that have lots of money, then fall in love. Hang out at the gas station corner, unemployment or the health department and likelly you will fall in love with not a wealthy person. If you are toothless, ugly, obese, or annoying you just cut out lots of wealthy significant other opportunities! Kick your bad habits, keep up with your health, appearance, education, be a hard worker and make your own money so it wont have to matter.

By: David G. Mitchell

David G. Mitchell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:57:43 +0000

Disgruntled Subscriber ~ You will note that I do not advocate a philosophy in my column. I pose a question, and it has certainly generated interesting and interested debate. I married for love and that is the only reason that I, personally, believe makes a good marriage — and the past twenty years of my life have proven the truth of that.

As for my dog. I also love him dearly and I do not consider his breeder a “back-yard breeder.” Rather, she is a fine business woman who has made many clients incredibly happy.

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:20:59 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn’t take a man coming from a wealthy background to want a wife that will help or completely support him. I’m not sure why my first husband ever married me, it certainly wasn’t for love and what i felt for him fizzled out real fast in the face of how he treated me. But what money I brought in was significant to him.

What I think is most important in marriage is respect for each other, caring for each other, wanting to build up and support the other. Having common goals and desires in life is extremely important. I’ll take my not very well to do hubby that spent hours last night reading through drug books trying to help me find some relief than a man who doesn’t care that I’m sick or one who is willing to throw money at the problem, but can’t emotionally support me.

Love or money isn’t really the question. It is when life gets tough, who do you want by your side helping you along?

By: minny

minny — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:05:40 +0000

Marrying for love is a very new concept. Within moneyed families all over the world look at who the children marry.

Prince William’s girlfriend Kate Middleton was introduced to us as an ‘ordinary girl’ – yeah right! William knows better than to get involved and marry an ‘ordinary’ girl he met at University and there were enough there for him to meet.

I think it very unlikely that a woman with enough money to keep a man comfortable would squander it by marrying anyone so poor. If someone wants a wealthy wife he had better get his ‘A’ into gear and become wealthy himself!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:40 +0000

If you’re fortunate enough to find real love, that’s true wealth.

By: Disgruntled Subscriber

Disgruntled Subscriber — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:46:17 +0000

Oh yeah, you’re the same guy that thought that there are such things as pure bred “Labradoodles” and encouraged people to use their pets to become backyard breeders.
I guess you are the kind of person that would thinks its right to marry for money, if you think its a good idea to spend $2500 on a dog while many other similar dogs die in animal shelters.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:47:45 +0000

Thought that I’d come back and see what people had to say because I find this subject fascinating.

I’m going to pass along Petunia’s comment concerning calendars and checkbooks to a friend of mine. I enjoy living alone with good friends to socialize with when I feel like it. She, on the other hand, had a life partner/common law husband of over 20 years who died a few years back of early alzheimers and likes having someone around constantly. Being a bit older — and having made one very bad mistake already, she’s approaching new relationships a bit differently now and will like that idea!

Definitely the subject is a powder keg, as someone said… but it’s also not an either or situation!