There is a long list of women* who have amassed personal fortunes by divorcing rich husbands — and as far as I can tell, they deserved every penny.
What it tells me is that the author sees latching on to a wealthy man with a view to divorcing him later as a viable and worthy method for a woman to acquire wealth.
It's no wonder that many men are shying away from marriage these days.
That said, any wealthy man who would dump a loyal first wife in order to acquire a "trophy" wife is a fool. Sometimes men allow their vanity and stupidity to set themselves up for a fall.
My wife and I made an agreement before we wed: “murder before divorce.”
On the other hand. Say you have a billion dollars. Maybe several billion. You have the G450 and pilot in standby. You have the awesome cars. You are celebrated everywhere you go.
And who is your only approved sexual outlet? An entitled woman. One old batty crone who is hanging out with her junior league friends all day, and who is the one person who will show you no respect. The person who breezily knows that she is a guaranteed billionaire despite the fact that no drilling company would have ever hired her for receptionist except she was the drillers wife.
Yeah, that puts the lead in the old pencil, doesn’t it? The way its supposed to work is that she is supposed to have the common decency turn her head and let him enjoy life a little with a Russian tennis star or whatever.
Yeah, I said it.