What happens when the financial resources and financial expectations differ significantly for those dating? \u00a0Who pays for what? Can it really work, to have the person with less money contribute their share by doing additional \u201cnice\u201d things? Or is this shades of telling children that it\u2019s not the cost of the gift but the thought behind the gift?\u00a0 Get real. Things don\u2019t always work that way with adults and relationships. And the person with the money is not prepared to live the life of a pauper.<\/p>\n
I’ve had my own experiences with dating some rather wealthy women (at least by comparison to my own finances).\u00a0 This was interesting to say the least, and always a significant factor in the relationship.\u00a0 It\u2019s as easy to love a rich (wo)man as a poor one…I\u2019m not so sure now. It\u2019s the balance within the relationship that matters, and an imbalance is likely to reflect an imbalance in values. And what does it mean when a man (or woman) has the money to treat a partner royally \u2013 good or bad? \u00a0Equality requires equal power. Ultimately, power is the ability to walk away. But practically, money often rules.<\/p>\n
One particular experience stands out from a period in my dating when my former marriage was recognized as over but not yet formally dissolved by divorce. When a woman and I were first discussing our backgrounds and the possibility of a future relationship, she said \u201cI am rich and you are poor. You have three children. I will pay for everything.\u201d And she did. Never knew quite what to make of that. Not to mention that she was younger than me and physically both very attractive and very sexual. Still amazes me. Still a friend (platonically of course).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What happens when the financial resources and financial expectations differ significantly for those dating? \u00a0Who pays for what? Can it really work,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}