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I agree that having money is great - but are you actually saying that the best relationship is one where combined income is maximized? Is there no room in your

• therealdrag0 5y ago
  People are really stereotyping in this thread. There can still be a lot of variance in engineering. Furthermore engineers aren’t robots; my engineer-partner does-pottery, and engineer-me has a liberal arts degree.
• mabbo 5y ago
  No, we're also super compatible as well. There's more to it than money. I just think that a lot of couples have problems and disputes that would not exist if they had money to throw at the problem to make it go away. Like a lot of stressful problems in life, marriage or otherwise. To steal a line from comedian Daniel Tosh: "Money doesn't buy happiness. Isn't that what people say? Money doesn't buy happiness? I dunno if that's true or not- I don't have any money. I'll tell you what I have learned. Poverty doesn't buy happiness. That I'm positive of."[0] It's also important to me that my wife is not dependent on me. She makes enough money that if I were an asshole she could walk out the door and never once worry about how she'll get by. Which means she is in this relationship because she wants to be. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brDCVWzL2Gg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brDCVWzL2Gg
  • lazide 5y ago
    Having been in one of those, and seen some others blow up? It’s great until someone stops making so much money, or you get kids and some of lifes harder issues (or mental illness) come up and the friction points aren’t something you can just spend your way out of anymore. Then the money can get used as a weapon to maximize suffering, and yikes.