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I am also one who's first cynical response is "fuck you, you're rich, who cares?". The most important word previous is "cynical". I am at this point in my life, lower-middle-class, whereas I had been alternately poor or lower class up until 1 1/2-2 yrs. ago. While a little green-eyed, I don't hold rich people's earnings against them (with the exception of those like Paris Hilton who did nothing more than be born to become rich).
Destrox: I don't get why you seem so bitter at your age, it kind-of saddens me. Who cares what assets the man has before marriage? You seem to be stating that only the "breadwinner" has any value in a marriage. As far as I understood the initial post, there was no mention of children at all. If there were children, would you think that a mother who is home all day taking care of the kid(s), keeping house and cooking meals doesn't mean anything? Forget kids, isin't keeping up the house and cooking all meals a job as well? Granted this woman probably had nanny's and cooks, but that is an assumption, not a known, and it seems you're lumping all women whether rich or poor into the same category.
I have worked full-time jobs (55-60 hrs/wk. for yrs. on end) and trust me, keeping a household running is just as challenging (as I've said, I've done both). Have you considered that some men might insist that their wives not work and "only" run the household while the husbands support them? The women married for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part, and whatever doth husband asketh (whether you believe it or not, a lot of people still adhere to the traditional vows). Then where are those women left in a divorce, say, 15 yrs. later? Possibly without education, without a work history and without a way to support themselves? Whether previously being rich or poor. Oh, I guess that is just too bad, her choice....
Ali
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