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Laeserin @Laeserin - 7h
Are you talking about wives?
It's the other way around, too. If he has money and makes her feel awkward about it (usually by accident), then it also dulls the romance. It's so hard to not constantly worry that you're just the hired entertainment. Does he even really like you or does he just think you look good in his car? π It's so much easier to start out at the same level and rise from there, together. As a team.
Like, if she doesn't care about money, she must care about something else.
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The problem men face is the tight competition for women who don't place financial worth as a high requirement. Most men want a woman like that, but they're rare and picky in other ways.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 8h
Although, maybe they just want the money. π
π Fr. I actually think it's sort of funny how many women want to date someone really wealthy because I always found that to be a barrier to intimacy.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 9h
I do sometimes wonder what they think of me. π I guess they get used to it.
I spend hours every day cooking and doing dishes. Our whole family life revolves around the kitchen.
Low self-esteem, yeah. I get it.
Then you have no excuse and have to be nice and stuff.
I'm autistic. I don't really have a "let 'em down easy" mode.
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I've told people they're kidding themselves, but it didn't go over well.
I dated someone like that, for a while. He really liked me, but his whole circle was so Oxbridge posh that I felt like the maid crashing their parties and was like nah. The whole thing was weird.
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Laeserin @Laeserin - 10h
I've overheard some people talk like that about past dates. It's such a weird conversation. Like you said, like they were talking about someone applying for a job that they weren't qualified for.
There's no normalized standard of behavior, anymore, or rituals, so it's all become very subjective and haphazard.
Sometimes they trot out a list, like some of the women that they make fun of, and it's like π€¨ Have fun with that, bro.
We got engaged when I was 22 and married a year later and our son was born a year after that.