Unfortunately prenups are a necessity in today’s world. You have no idea if someone’s personality is going to change and they’ve been playing you all that time, to then become a person that’s unliveable with, just to get half your stuff.
I think it’s protection against it and if you never have to use it, count yourself lucky and thank God for a truly good spouse.
Millionaire men are more trusting than millionaire women. I suspect the reason is that millionaire women tend to project their negative traits onto others.
Incoming!
Another data point for the massive amount of evidence Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit collects regarding women practicing hypergamy.
"C'mon C'mon love me for the money. C'mon C'mon listen to the money talk!"
Not surprising.
As a become financially very successful, I was suddenly sexy.
Women value money more than most things.
This article reminds me of the Baroness’ line from The Sound of Music (movie). “I must have a man who needs me, or at least needs my money.”
Many of these Silicon geeks could not get a date without money. I think there was a study done in some women’s magazine that ranked the “sexiness” of men and their professions. The military and construction workers were high on the list. Accountants and computer programmers were on the bottom. No doubt money changes that perception for many women.
A few thoughts:
1. Men don’t care how much money a woman has but only how hot she looks, and most women that are millionaires are not that hot.
2. Prenuptials are not worth the paper they are printed on, if you’re a man the family courts will financially rape you no matter what legal hoops you’ve jumped through to protect yourself. Still worth a try but don’t count on it working.
3. Most of these Silicon Valley Millionaires are nerds that made it big (like the CEO of Facebook) and have no real experience with women and so will most likely get taken to the cleaners by the gold diggers trolling for them.
4. For women status matters so no surprise that they do not want to “marry down” no matter how hot the guy is. For these women a life with many cats is in thier future.
And I beleive my wife is getting a nice raise starting next year . . .
Let’s face it. Women who have the drive to become millionaire’s, for the most part, are unnattractive. They know what is going on.
As I taught my kids... Marry someone for money and you’ll earn every penny.
When asked if golf was a good way to get rich, Lee Trevino famously replied: “I don’t know. Ask my ex-wives.”
It’s funny you know. I have several wealthy friends who use Millionaire and J-Date. The men’s motivation and women’s are completely different.
The men, for the most part, are dating for fun and if a relationship develops si be it.
They are, however, leery of any woman who would join these sites for rather obvious reasons.
The women, on the other hand, use these sites in hopes of landing a lifetime supply of someone they can manipulate and provide a lifestyle they are accustomed to or desire to achieve by merely being married
In fact, I have two friends who are living in hell as the wenches have oiled themselves.
I think one recently started a broom factory.
Now, I ask you : “What is the difference between those women and Heidi Fleiss employees?
Or it could be the female tendency to view finances as "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is ours".
Anyone who’s ever been broke and then come into money will tell you that - suddenly - he’s extremely popular with the ladies.
Like it or not, money attracts women like flies to roadkill in July.