That is where it gets tricky, doesn’t it? Women are judged primarily for their looks and men for their wallets. Both are fleeting... or can be. Reminds me of a woman that was assigned to my Mother (who was a R.N.) The woman was stunningly beautiful.. worked out everyday and had the plastic surgery to make herself more glamorous to her wealthy, Alpha husband. The woman had both breasts removed due to breast cancer. In recovery, her husband told her he was leaving her and that he “couldn’t stand to be married to a freak without T*ts”.
Classy guy.
One very important point though: Cash is nice for men to have, but it´s not *the* most important thing. The most important thing is what we can perhaps term psychosocial dominance. Or just “manliness” in short. A poor man with plain looks who acts with confidence and assertiveness can often compete with better-looking richer men who act weak.
There are some rather extreme examples of this. For instance, the well-publicized tendency for mass murders to have a lot of pull with women:
And several guys I know had their wives leave because they went bankrupt or careers were stagnant.
There’s a type of man who will do just that. There’s
even a book about it, called “The Script” and a short
story c. 1925 by Mary Roberts Rinehart (in her collection
“Married People” ) that captures it perfectly.