doxieluvr
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Post by doxieluvr on Feb 5, 2014 21:06:09 GMT -5
I would rather pay serious money to have him play strip poker.
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InsertCoolName
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Post by InsertCoolName on Feb 5, 2014 22:32:48 GMT -5
I've not read much of the 6 pages.
I don't care what he has. If I'm going to fall in love, that has nothing to do with what he owns.
Don't care if he is broke. Don't care if he's rich. It's about his thoughts and what he puts value on.
Oh and I have to think he's sexy/good looking. Doesn't mean anyone else has too, just me.
People CAN live on 20k a year and have money in the bank. People who makes 6 figures CAN have debt up to their eye balls.
Not that any of this matters in my life anymore. And I doubt anyone cares what I think or have to say.
Having a list for a partner is funny to me.
ok ok I do have a list.
1. No criminals. 2. NOT in a current relationship. 3. Not abusive.
All joking aside, I can't imagine living in $20k year but I know it is something I never want to do. There are many traits important to me but if a guy had them all but was piss poor broke I would probably not be interested. I will never know unless I'm in that position
It's piss poor if you live something that isn't cheap. 20k here in my small town, while it's not great, a single person would be more than fine. Start throwing in wife/gf and or kids then it's not great.
However, 20k probably an hour from me would be poor and not ideal.
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Opti
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Post by Opti on Feb 6, 2014 2:14:45 GMT -5
POM, Doxie, FWIW, my almost second husband was in a state of transition when I met him. I think I officially met him in the summer of 1994 and unoffically we broke up for the final time around 2000/2001. I changed the locks on the old apartment in the complex across the street. Not sure exactly where he was but I know who he was working for. He lived at their home at one time with their son who I think is likely still a struggling actor. His family has one home in the US and Optimist doesn't know in the Phillipines. I probably turned down a fortune in retirement money/lifestyle by not working everything through the women and making sure I went to meet Grandma instead of waiting to be invited. Yet another Optimist mistake. He still remembers me at events I didn't attend and in my Mom's mini-albumn she made me I put one of the pics from a family black tie event. I still have my Macy's black evening flowy dress into pants thing. One of the women said my pic in that shot reminded her of Brooke Shields.
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Opti
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Post by Opti on Feb 6, 2014 2:27:05 GMT -5
It sucks, but FWIW, it really does hone ones survival tactics and really opens one's eyes to how the world works. Almost second husband and fiancee in reality but never officially chose to live homeless with his poetess/girlfriend for the experience. At least in NJ where extreme wealth exists, it is fairly common for roughly 10% of children from wealthy homes to actively choose or flirt with the poverty option. Not sure with the reverse, but it is I think a similar percent. Miss T, and Dark are actually a type of folks born in poverty, not special snowflakes in some sense.
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Opti
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Post by Opti on Feb 6, 2014 2:38:47 GMT -5
Watch the Series White Collar to see how "living poor" with the right attitude has benefits. (First season, first couple episodes. ) Book - Glass castle(s)? concerning a brother and sister who grew up poor. Both children end up financial successes because of their upbringing. (Dad) and Mom are living as squatters in NYC when the book ends. Mom constantly gives her daughter interesting finds from the city's dumpsters and low end thrift stores. FWIW.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 6, 2014 6:26:47 GMT -5
What do you think of guys like this? I wouldn't date him. He has a face like a potato.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 6, 2014 6:36:51 GMT -5
This guy is more my speed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 8:24:02 GMT -5
I'll bet he doesn't look like that anymore. Prison does things to a man...
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Cookies Galore
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I don't need no instructions to know how to rock
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Post by Cookies Galore on Feb 6, 2014 8:48:18 GMT -5
I see a blue question mark?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 8:53:28 GMT -5
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