A Poll for women only

[Pension_Admin]

It's kind of subjective and I don't think parents would play as significant role as the society and the media.

 

[nitro]

Quote from Pension_Admin:

It's kind of subjective and I don't think parents would play as significant role as the society and the media.

Quote from nitro:

Google results give an indication, but I am extremely skeptical:


...The book confirms what mothers have been telling their daughters for generations: "Girls are told at their mother's knee: "It's just as easy to love a rich man as a poor man." Or, "No Romance without Finance." And, "Marry the one you can live with, not the one you can't live without."

Many women would agree that one good man in the boardroom is better than two in the bedroom...


http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source...-m1&oq=do+women+marry+for&fp=5b7cf21b103219ea

They contend that smart women marry for money. FWIW, my ex-wife was a professor at a University. When she married me, I was stone broke (I had a job but it was as a programmer, a wage slave).

 

[moonlightxpress]

my girlfriend is definitely with me for my good looks

 

[BernardRichards]

Quote from nitro:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

We must try.

I like the TR quote you brought forth in response Nitro.

"Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable as a member of a crowd, he is at once a blockhead." -Friedrich von Schiller

 

[nazzdack]

Quote from moonlightxpress:
my girlfriend is definitely with me for my good looks

What's gonna happen to you after your 27th birthday?

 

[BernardRichards]

Quote from nazzdack:

What's gonna happen to you after your 27th birthday?

That is simple -- then she is going to be with him for his good soul.

 

[karol88]

Quote from Pension_Admin:

IMHO, women are told to marry for a better life.

A lot of women see a marriage as a new beginning. A new life with a better lifestyle.

Some of them will draw causation between money and happiness (due to media) and would ultimately choose to marry someone that have more money than them.

However, there are some strong women who could get the better life themselves and don't need to marry for rich. So they marry the handsome-looking guy instead.

PA

right, and there are also rich women struggle with the same problem...they have good looking guys who want to marry them for their money, easy life....its rare, but happens too...

all my girlfriends want to marry for different reasons btw...only about 20-30% would marry for money

 

[426653478]

Quote from nitro:

... to marry for money, or to marry for love?

it's not that marriage for love is any better than marriage for money or vice versa, the root of the problem is this: marriage is bullshit, it's fucking 2010, pull your heads out of your asses

 

[nitro]

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? - George Eliot

To whom I owe the leaping delight
That quickens my senses in our wakingtime
And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime,
The breathing in unison

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
And babble the same speech without need of meaning.

No peevish winter wind shall chill
No sullen tropic sun shall wither
The roses in the rose-garden which is ours and ours only

But this dedication is for others to read:
These are private words addressed to you in public. - TS Eliot

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity
It asked a crumb of me. - Emily Dickinson

 

[moonlightxpress]

Quote from BernardRichards:

That is simple -- then she is going to be with him for his good soul.

absolutely, my pockets got mold but my heart is of gold