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I recently watched The Wolf of Wall Street with my husband this past weekend after all the hullabaloo & we were talking after the film & I brought up the point that most men after they get a little clout, power, & cash tend to "dump" the women they started out with...like Jordan Belfort did when he dumped his first, "homely looking" albeit supportive wife for the sexy model he ended up cheating with...
This happens more likely than men who have "blue-collar" or "low-paying jobs", those men are more likely to stay married to their wives...
thoughts? why does this happen? This is a conversation...what about women with money?
I recently watched The Wolf of Wall Street with my husband this past weekend after all the hullabaloo & we were talking after the film & I brought up the point that most men after they get a little clout, power, & cash tend to "dump" the women they started out with...like Jordan Belfort did when he dumped his first, "homely looking" albeit supportive wife for the sexy model he ended up cheating with...
This happens more likely than men who have "blue-collar" or "low-paying jobs", those men are more likely to stay married to their wives...
thoughts? why does this happen? This is a conversation...what about women with money?
I can't speak for women with money, but the reason that some men would do this is because their options suddenly opened up. Once a man is rich, he becomes attractive to a wider pool of women.
I think some wealthy men are happy to be with the wives who supported them when they had less, that way they know their wives are with them for reasons other than money.
I can't speak for women with money, but the reason that some men would do this is because their options suddenly opened up. Once a man is rich, he becomes attractive to a wider pool of women.
Would guess this is spot-on. A bit frustrating that human relationship dynamics are not unlike business, though I guess that would follow, RE "options."
As my father used to say: Hate the game, not the player.
Case in point:
After careful study, and quite a bit of on-the-ground experience, most-assuredly this is the "romantic arbitrage" situation occurring between American or West European men and Russian/FSU single women, too. That is to say, the latter's marriage prospects are dismal because statistically, the men have little hope and absolutely do die before their time (alcohol abuse, other despair-related illness).
When their odds of a good, safe life for their children (current or future) are very low, FSU women leap much faster at the opportunity provided by a dopey-dude from the West. Oh yes. Whereas American women can "afford" to be quite a bit more blase about it all, or at least think they can.
If there is such thing as a "league"...argued on other threads, other sections of C-D...average-looking but quite-successful Western men can feel like kids in the candy store when around FSU women: waaaaay out of their league. I've dated two such women who were, frankly, somewhat "out of my league" at least in absolute terms of looks (a bit self-deprecatingly speaking). The economics of the situation were way-tilted in my favor, conversely.
This happens more likely than men who have "blue-collar" or "low-paying jobs", those men are more likely to stay married to their wives...
thoughts? why does this happen? This is a conversation...what about women with money?
Not necessarily. Just watch the Divorce Court and you'll see that not-so-rich folks cheat too. I think not everyone is 'wired' to be monogamous and I accept that. You just have to be smart enough not to fall for one.
On the flip side, rich men get cheated on by their young trophy wives too. Ask Rupert Murdoch, whose marriage to ex-wife Wendy Deng ended up in a divorce because she cheated on him repeatedly. I read somewhere that the straw that broke the camel's back was when he found out Wendy was cheating on him with Tony Blair (yes, the British former Prime Minister), whom he considered a very close friend.
I was going to say greater opportunity too. More attractive = more options.
i think this is generally true, but i would also say that sometimes life events just happens and it's time to move on. actually, i this the premise of the question is all wrong because you either want to stay with someone for as longs as you can, or you don't. and if it's just staying together for the benefit of convenience, well that only last so long...
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