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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Random Clicky
Just because someone I know irks me.......and one of her fb posts made me think of this...
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Re: Random Clicky
I don't need to marry for money...muhahahaha.
DH and I joke that he married his future sugar mama. He wants me to start making the big bucks so he can quit his job, start his own video game company, and raise our eventual child and teach said child how to code video games, lol.
Agreed....
I do believe....while it might be a small percentage....some women would rather not have to make their own money, but just marry a man who has it and will take care of her needs....
ETA: Didn't realize we already had 11% that said they would marry for money.
If there were some kind of weird circumstance where he had to marry to get an inheritance or something, and i got a part of it and we got along well, and there wasn't anyone else in the picture, i'd consider it. But not a real marriage.
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
hmm..
My mom drilled into my head since I was little, that it was important to get an education and be able to take care of yourself so that you would never feel that you needed to be with or stay with a man that didn't really want to be with. I've never thought of marrying someone to provide for me.
Plus, I'm a control freak and I would hate to be w/ someone I needed financially or feel that they were in control of me in any way...even if they didn't act that way, I would still feel that way. Maybe it's messed up, but I'd rather be in control. DH says I'm too independent.
Would you marry someone for their looks? Would you care if someone was marrying you for your money?
For money alone? No
If I were already in love with the person and they had money? Sure, but I wouldn't stop working or anything. I'd want to make sure that I can always take care of myself.
I don't think this isn't marrying for money, it's for love with a money cherry on top. Unless the money is the reason you're marrying them.
i voted yes, but it's more yes with an asterisk.
i wouldn't do it for money alone...as in, i wouldn't "hate the guy, but marry him because he had money".
he would have to be a decent human being, relatively attractive, and we'd have to be at least somewhat compatible. he'd have to be interested in me for who i am (with no money!) and be ready to take care of me.
i believe in "arranged marriages"...i think it's perfectly acceptable to get married first, fall in love later. it happens a lot in my culture, and i don't see a lot wrong with it.....given the two are at least somewhat compatible.
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jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
"Mama always said it's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor one."
~ Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
I disagree, no it's not. It's hard to find them in the first place, then (for my morals) they need to be unattached already, and not a jerk and at least compatible...and I didn't find any of those before I made the mistake of falling head over heels for a poor man.
I agree with all of this; though arranged marriages aren't really part of my culture, per se, I don't see much wrong with it assuming the initial compatibility.
Mail-order-bride stuff, with no pre-wedding interview or whatever, is a lot more scary, I think!