Posted on 01/15/2007 7:16:36 PM PST by Lorianne
News flash... Stupidity makes one miserable...
people change.
probably dumping their efficient, sympathetic, domestic but frumpy wives for them as well.
What kind of life is leaving 5:30 in the morning for work, getting home at 10:30? Sex?? He's lucky he is still walking.
This sounds like a guy who wants a trophy wife but can't get one.
been there .done that. not much worse than the toxic wife.
When I hear trophy wife usually think of the old fart marrying the sweet young thing.....So I agree, no sympathy here, they married the bimbo.
I will never forget Dr. Laura telling one of her callers that his children will always refer to her is the bimbo. When she protested Dr. Laura simply stated "Of course you are, smart women do not date married men."
Bookmarked. This is EXACTLY why I have chosen to remain single.
Around 1510 Luca Landucci, a small time Florentine apothecary, recorded on the death of his wife Salvestra that over 48 years of their marriage she had never once made him angry. Behold the miracle, and bare your head in front of it [Over the centuries his diary has been considered by historians as a generally trustworthy source, so Luca is not believed to be a fibber].
Strong argument for an air tight prenup. Nothing new here, you see these women around all the time. They have that air of vapidity around them constantly.
Ego.
I've been single since the early 90's. Had a horrible marriage, a horrible wife too. I've not had the guts to try it again.
I think it was Ann Landers who said that you are the only person who can make you act like a carpet, or words to that effect.
In this case, the complaint has been raised against a situation that was allowed to develop over the course of years. They want instant solutions to problems like this?
They aren't going to find any. Solutions will also take years, re-education, altering both their expectations about themselves and about each other, and most of all a recognition that there *are* problems, *and* that they need to change.
Both people are the problem, and the problem is probably already overlapping and affecting their children in all sorts of bad ways.
For the husband to have married a workaholic woman would have been just as bad, just as many problems, if different ones.
They all need a major re-alignment of their stuff.
People change--and not for the better....
Great wives exist. There are plenty of fantastic women out there. Just don't stop at mere looks or you'll keep wanting to select a mate for sex.
I happen to be one of those "trophy" wives, who married a man 23 years older than me 20 years ago.
I don't understand the bitterness in some of these stories, except maybe from some first wives. When I met my husband his first wife was dead, and it took awhile, but his kids love me today, and call on me when they need help, and they are closer to me than him.
I actually am enjoying grandkids his first wife missed out on, and I feel sorry that she didn't experience the joy they give me. His kids know I am here for them, and our home is their home as well as mine, they always know they are welcome here (I've worked hard to make them know this).
Back in the old days, when wives died early (often in childbirth), men married much younger women to help raise his kids, and often had more with the younger wife. My husband didn't have that problem, and his kids, although only a few years younger than me, know that I love them. And their kids are my pride and joy, I am a young grandma and we camp and fish together, they love me.
I have the best of worlds, never had to experience a labor pain, but have beautiful grandkids who are now my fishing partners.
BTTT
bump
I do work for a good number of very wealthy people and there isn't one of them that is what this guy describes.
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