^ I don’t think it’s fair to lump 20 and 25 year olds in the same bucket. that’s a significant period of time which ranges from still in college (not really having that real world responsibility yet) to having worked for a couple years already. pretty big life changes in that range if you ask me.
girls who have graduated and worked a bit are generally more stable and mature yes?
Yes. If they realise how hard it is to make money, they appreciate your money more.
or that you just can’t wait for him to share in your misery…
Mark Twain: the neighors who got conned wanted their fellow neighors to suffer the same fate in a subconscious inner fear of being the only ones being tricked and losing out, therefore they spread the lie about how great it was.
I don’t have any misery. I’m actually as happy as I’ve ever been in my life. I’m young and make good coin. I didn’t have to settle down now. I chose to because I’m with a great woman that compliments my life. There are as many happy stories as there are disasters.
I think it’s best to make that decision while it’s still a decision and not desperation, lonliness or legacy that forces your hand.
Your Twain quote cuts both ways.
and 2) it’s far easier for a girl to take advantage of you (or milk you for all you got) when she’s got your child inside her and has no stable job.
yes people win lotteries sometimes. congrats
^ That’s nonsense. It’s not a lottery. Lots of people win in this game.
Good 'ol Itera sippin on a cold glass of Hatorade. He feels that marriage is nothing more than betting half of your assets that love will last forever. I mean, I don’t blame the guy, how on earth could he live with himself if his net worth was sliced to $50k. That’s real pain brotha.
Ooooooo snap
Divorce rates are notoriously difficult to calculate and that whole “50% of marriages end up in divorce” is a complete myth. Not saying I’d place any wagers on a 30 year old lasting with a 21 year old, but the odds may not be as against you as you think.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/divorce.htm#.U5mnVPldV2A
Maybe he believes that sex is nothing more than the way babies are made, too. Such a shallow interpretation.
Let me put it this way with some illustrations.
In our recent house search we ultimately cut our target home value by more than half so we could buy our home outright in cash. She was the one campaigning for it because she wanted to remove stressors like debt from our relationship. Contrast this to most people pushing their man to keep up with the Jones’s. At 22 now she’s more mature than half the people on this forum.
Last night it was raining (very hard) on the way to the movies. Keep in mind she’s 7 months pregnant and her feet hurt. I offered to drop her at the front and go park on a side street so she didn’t have to walk in the rain. She refused because she was happy we had a date night and wanted to spend the walk witih me. I’ve seen more kindness from her than my other relationships combined. Not to say she doesn’t have flaws but against her character they are forgivable.
When we first started dating she had just moved back up north from Florida that week and didn’t have a job yet. She strained out her back clearing scrap from a building to earn the money to pay for gas to come see me. Contrast that work ethic to the ivy league prima donas commenting here who don’t know her and haven’t done real labor in their life. I think she knows what money is more than people who think it exists in a spreadsheet.
Don’t tell me college girls (or guys) exit more mature and with a better work ethic than people who don’t go to college. I’ve seen my friends who chose to work in construction or get by managing retail stores and I’ve completed a grad degree and seen the immature man children that hide within the higher education system.
This is simply people commenting on a relationship involving a person they know nothing about, and of course using mental models to form their opinion. I’ve been a bachelor and lived that life and spent a fair amount of time in New York. So I know the lifestyle they’re worshiping. It’s not all that. However, it’s pretty apparent from their comments they know nothing of the lifestyle I’m currently in, so the comments are right up there with the thread on flight MH370 when everyone suddenly decided they were aviation experts.
I appreciate the comments from Geo, Greenman, MBAvsCFA.
The problem with the comments cautioning against my situation is I don’t hear any real joy or contentment coming from those individuals that makes me at all want to heed their advise or emulate their situation.
^ My nigga.
Listening to a bunch of single finance nerds talk about love is about as relevant as listening to a bunch of virgins talk about sex.
Has she preordered the Halo: Master Chief Collection for you? She sounds like a good girl, so I’ll assume so. More importantly, can she describe, in detail, why Halo 2 is the best fps multiplayer game (not including Goldeneye)?
See, I hated Halo 2, I was more of a Halo 3 and Reach guy. I don’t know how we can ever be friends!
The best FPS multiplayer game is Counterstrike. It is known.
You know nothing lxwarr30.
To bring us further off-topic, I downloaded every NES game two days ago (a surprisingly small file for over 1000 games) and I’m already half way through a season on Tecmo Super Bowl. Steve DeBerg and Christian Okoye lead every stat category. I highly recommend the OpenEmu emulator. It’s slick.
^ The Nigerian Nightmare!
Oh the misspent days of my youth… Fantastic game.