[Terriergal]

As I am dating I meet a lot of successful men who are quite indignant when they learn that my job does not net me six figures, so I must necessarily be a golddigger. I gently point out that they can't have it both ways: taking care of a house, children, and husband at a high standard is a full-time job, and earning a six-figure income is more than a full-time job

You are so right. Change locations.

Didn't you hear the gal on Rush who called with this same sort of complaint? she lived in New Jersey. She moved to the midwest and met a guy. We still live on earth here in the midwest. Or at least, a greater percentage of us do. Get out in the wide open spaces where people act like they're supposed to for the most part, instead of living high pressure lives where all their priorities almost *necessarily* get screwed up.

[Capriole]

We still live on earth here in the midwest. Or at least, a greater percentage of us do. Get out in the wide open spaces where people act like they're supposed to for the most part, instead of living high pressure lives where all their priorities almost *necessarily* get screwed up.

How right you are. I was born in the countryside of the Midwest and all my kin are from backwoods Virginia. People are normal in those places. I am planning to move to the country to provide a better environment for my children but for health reasons and to keep my kids close to their father (for I'm a big fathers' rights advocate) we need to stay near DC, where the kids' father is.

I seem to be the sort of woman who attracts the high rollers and bigshots. The truth is that in my cohort there are fewer men than women available. But I haven't been on the market very long--only three years--so I haven't exactly exhausted the possibilities.