The Vagaries of Romance and Depreciating Assets

This is an old one, perhaps before  Tinder and other dating apps had hit the market and made it easy for casual sex without commitment or relationships with commitment.

Now, I understand that nobody would want to marry a loser, or someone on a low income.

I wouldn't marry someone covered in tattoos, who does drugs, and now after a lifetime of experience, someone who isn't sexually motivated.

But hey, my well-qualified wife married me when I had no marketable qualifications. She married me for love, that abstract condition that everyone talks about, but none of us really knows much about.

My wife wasn't a gold-digger, but she obviously had an innate feeling that I was a person who would come good. 

And I did. I always provided for my family and improved my qualifications and status as married life progressed.

I believe I've been a good husband and a good father, but I never earned $500,000 per year. Our combined incomes never came close.

We've had a good life, cared for our kids and retired in a sound financial position while earning much less than half a million annually.

So, what is it really that this woman wants?

My guess is that it wasn't really some self-describing "spectacularly beautiful 25 year old" who wrote this, but a single guy on much less a salary who was pissed off at a woman or women generally who only wanted wealthy partners.

We'll never know the truth, but I thought the answer by the Investment Banker was excellent.

As Sir Winston Churchill is said to have responded to a woman who called him a "drunkard", "In the morning madam, I'll be sober, but you'll still be fat and ugly."

Maybe the 25 year old who wrote this article will be, "far less attractive, single and broke" within a few decades. Life has a habit of levelling the playing field doesn't it?

Robin