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Back in the dark ages when I was dating, I had an almost-year-long relationship with a woman who is now the youngest senior partner in a really big-time Chicago law firm (big time in that if you read ever read national news, you'll have seen their name a lot in the last 15 years). At the time, she was the fastest rising associate there and was named as a junior partner a little before our relationship ended. I do pretty well for myself, but she was in another league.
And it didn't bother me a bit.
She got a bonus about 2 months before we broke up that allowed her to buy a 10,000 square foot house in the Gold Coast of Chicago, just down the street from where Lee Miglin had been killed a year or so earlier. She paid cash. Although I know the exact amount, I'll just say it was low 7 figures.
Why'd we break up? I never saw her. The last month of our relationship, I saw her exactly twice before I pulled the plug. Money wasn't the issue, it was that I was 3rd on her list behind work and her mom. I could have stood being second behind her mom (who was a great lady - I went to her funeral last year and she was invited to my wedding) with zero problem, but work became more important to her than me, so I unencumbered her.
Before I got married, few of the women I dated had any idea how much I earned. Most assumed that they made more than me. They were usually wrong.
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