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I'll try to explain my question coherently enough so that I don't get too many weird/angry/passive aggressive responses!
I've met some very successful men in their given career and one thing I've always noticed is that (with the exception of one who's wife is a lawyer) their female counterparts - while always very lovely, engaging, and smart - aren't exactly career driven.
This makes me question whether or not one bustling and powerful career is the limit for a relationship?
Is it possible that successful men don't want to feel threatened by their significant other's career so they choose a girl (or boy, for all you politically correct people out there) that isn't swiftly ascending the career ladder?
Thoughts, opinions, statements - anyone? Bueller?
I wouldn't necessarily say that.
I've known successful women to marry men that weren't ambitious. I've even known women who weren't initially ambitious, start to make moves and their man doesn't, and maybe they were in a similar situation together when they first got married. It takes all kinds.
Were I a successful man I would want a woman that could challenge me intellectually, academically, creatively, etc. That does not necessarily translate into a woman with her own wealth.
Then again you have no control over who you fall in love with. Ambitious could be as simple as a woman working in entertainment making strides, does not necessarily have to be an academic.
It is dangerous for a man to marry down. According to family courts, they will have to pay to maintain their spouses 'lifestyle' after a divorce. Only marry equal or above!
I'll try to explain my question coherently enough so that I don't get too many weird/angry/passive aggressive responses!
I've met some very successful men in their given career and one thing I've always noticed is that (with the exception of one who's wife is a lawyer) their female counterparts - while always very lovely, engaging, and smart - aren't exactly career driven.
This makes me question whether or not one bustling and powerful career is the limit for a relationship?
Is it possible that successful men don't want to feel threatened by their significant other's career so they choose a girl (or boy, for all you politically correct people out there) that isn't swiftly ascending the career ladder?
Thoughts, opinions, statements - anyone? Bueller?
Men marry less successful woman ALL THE TIME. Hello - trophy wife?
Is it possible that successful men don't want to feel threatened by their significant other's career so they choose a girl (or boy, for all you politically correct people out there) that isn't swiftly ascending the career ladder?
Nah. It's much simpler than that. Men like to be the providers. They need to be needed. And, once upon a time, women liked being provided for and liked needing a man. It was very common, until feminism came along, for women to keep a hope a chest. It was filled with items passed down by grandmothers and mothers to unmarried young women. Dresses, tableclothes and linens, dishware, basically things to start off the "making a home" process. Upon marriage, the young woman would take the hope chest with her to her new home and eventually pass items down to her daughter. And so it went. And there was some form of this process as far back in history as has been recorded.
It is dangerous for a man to marry down. According to family courts, they will have to pay to maintain their spouses 'lifestyle' after a divorce. Only marry equal or above!
sounds more like womens motto lol
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