Friday, 10 July 2009

• Why Wouldn't You Marry Someone For Their Money?

  
  

  
  BelisaAmbrose@xanga left this comment on our post, Marrying for Money.  They bring up some very good points. Here's the comment.
  
  I would marry someone that had money, if the attraction was there.  I probably would consider an offer of marriage with someone with money that was offering a business/partnership transaction, if I thought that we could grow as a couple and that I would be financially secure if things didn't work out.  But only because I'm single ATM.
  
  I have been offered a number of transactions for money, none of which I've ever taken up because it would be a little to much like prostitution in my books, and although I've known 'working' people and had friendships with them, and not judged them for their choosen profession, that's just something I would not do.
  
  For me sex between a man and a woman, should at least be fun, ideally it be intimate and special.  I don't see that happening if you were paid for it.  Having said that, though, the reason I would consider marriage with someone who offered to take care of me, is because I do believe that the man should be the primary source of income within a family.  If the woman wants to work, fine, however, I believe, and it's only my opinion so before anyone crusifies me, that the woman has a duty within the house and as a partner to her husband.
  
  That doesn't mean I think women should be subservient slaves, nor does it mean that I don't think anything else could work.  It just means in a relationship with traditional gender roles, I think that the women performs best and is most satified being the mans helpmeet.  Heart and home of the household.
  
  The only things that would make me hesitate/not consider marriage for the sake of financial security would be;
  
  1.  If there was no way that I would ever find my partner attractive.
  
  2.  If there was something about his nature that I found completely repulsive.
  
  3. If under no circumstances did he ever want children.
  
  Are there any reasons why you wouldn't marry someone for their money?
  
  

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