I highly doubt you will find a rich wife who is going to want to work and actually raise her kids when hubby has alot of money and she doesn't HAVE to do anything. Why would these women want to do anything?
Chris, there is such a thing as a desire to achieve and contribute, not to mention a sense of accomplishment.
One of my girlfriend's was raised as your typical italian princess. I'm sure you're familiar with what I'm refering to. From day one she had a silver spoon in her mouth, ...the best of everything. At 18, she was married well (an arranged marriage to a fabulous man whom she grew to love and respect). She's never HAD to work a day in her life, ...but she does. Hubby keeps insisting she kick back and take it easy. She won't. She has an inner drive to both contribute, and achieve, and be more than just so & so's wife, or so & so's mother. She went from being so & so's daughter, to so & so's wife, then she became so & so's mother, ...but she's never been just her. She prefers to define herself as more than just a wife & mother. It truly depends on the person, what drives them, what fires them up, ...and self motivation and inner drive is not always dependant upon financial status.
True story: When they started the muffin franchises, she ran everything. She did it all from design to dealing with the building contractors, hiring, staffing, costing, merchandising, marketing, pretty much everything. All hubby wanted to do was be in the kitchen and bake muffins. His exact words "I don't wanna be bothered with anything, I just wanna bake muffins... you handle everything else". And that's exactly what she did. At the grand openining, everyone, including all the family members congratulated
him on what a fabulous job
HE had done putting the business together. His contribution... he stayed in the back and baked muffins. His contribution to the entire thing could quite easily have been done by a $5
.oo/hr. teenager, ...but in the end, the credit for everything was given to him. The same with their pizzeria as well.
"Our egos" as you so eloquently put it are nonexistent when a woman wants to be pampered and treat like the queen she thinks she is. Gold diggers like these do not want to have responsibility and take advantage of wealth that is not theirs to begin with.
So why deal with a gold digger? There are those who are specifically looking for gold diggers, and there are gold diggers specifically looking for sugar daddies and sugar mommas. Let them gravitate to each other, and be happy.
Oh and I have more knowledge than you think and give credit for. I would sooner move to non-extradition country than pay an ex with my earnings and give up property/money that belongs to me solely. If things are bought with my money I will keep record of everything and she will get nothing that was bought with MY money. Joint buys are different. I just assume give those up and never hear about it. Add into it that I will keep cash reserves that no wife of mine will ever see.
Quoted for posterity. Feel free to visit back in a few years to shake your head and marvel at your own words.
