This question applies to both men and women: would you marry solely for money?
I ran into an old acquaintance (and I deliberately use the word acquaintance rather than friend) the other day who left me in no doubt that she definitely would.
It’s funny when you find yourself walking towards someone you know but don’t really like and you know that they’ve seen you and they know that you’ve seen them and there’s no way to suddenly change paths to avoid each other. There’s that split-second hesitation, then that sort of grimace that you make before you get the smile in place. We were both doing that.
Anyway, said “Hello”, commented on how well each other was looking and made all those polite queries that you make when you haven’t seen someone for fifteen years or so and haven’t really missed them. Her comments went along the lines of:
“Are you married?”
“Any kids”
“Not working, I suppose?”
“Where are you living?”
“What does your husband do?”
That pretty much exhausted her minimal interest in me and she turned the discussion to another mutual – well - on my part friend, on her part acquaintance. Her comment was that so-and-so had “done well” for herself by marrying a local financial big-shot. Her tone was very envious. She went on to inform me about a few other mutual acquaintances that had “hooked good catches” in the forms of solicitors, business owners and doctors. Such a shame she hadn’t managed to perform the same feat herself as yet.
There was no doubt that she judged the success of these girls purely on how wealthy a husband they had married.
So it begs the question: would any of you decide whether to marry someone or not based on how much money they had?? And if so, how much money would it take?