Friend of Mine Got Dumped Over Money

11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

I recall when my friend decided to stop taking women on dates, due to not having enough money for going on dates, and resolved to tell women outright that he had no money, just attended technical college, and didn't have grand prospects, something quite unexpected happened. Women took him out on dates and seemed to enjoy the change in power dynamics. His relationship with his girlfriend started that way. They focused going on dates that didn't involve spending money, but she sometimes gave him expensive gifts, and treated him to meals at high-end restaurants. With a high-paying job, his lack of money and great prospects wasn't an issue with her. She liked him for such things as his kindness, his well-read perspective on the world, his nice attitude.

As he toiled away at technical college, he got frustrated at some cumbersome process that using certain electronic devices demanded, so designed a contraption for his own convenience, that simplified the process.

A classmate was impressed with his gizmo and advised him to get a patent on it ASAP or the college would take credit for the invention and leave him with nothing, as usually happens. He tried to dismiss it as no big deal, but his classmate was obsessively and persistently adamant about it, saying he'd put up his own money for the patent. My friend went along with that plan, just to shut his classmate up, feeling kind of sorry for him for wasting money like that. Six months later, they sold rights to the patent for millions of dollars to an electronics company, and they were both suddenly rich.

When my friend's girlfriend learned about his fortune, she got upset and dumped him because she felt it destroyed the dynamics of their relationship. When he offered to let her have all of the money that was the last straw and she ended the relationship then and there. She dumped him over money.

Over beer, he complained, "When I didn't have money, everything was fine between us, but soon after I suddenly was loaded she dumped me."

That's crazy! Usually it's the other way around as in the Women are around when you have cash, but when it goes so do they.

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tagiscom 11 years ago

Hmmmm, l was expecting a bill gates, tag line! :rolleyes:

Great story!

Yeah, l have dated a couple of women, and usually when they find out l am building an online business, and haven't quite made it yet, that is that!

Or when you date someone, you have to get past her parents, or get past her parents, putting her off, because of a temporary lack of money!

I do get women interested enough in me to want to go on a date, now and then, but tend to not take the initiate, because l haven't hit the online jackpot yet, or developed an income yet!

It is near impossible to convince someone that you will make good money in X number of years.

The best thing to convince skeptical parents is a wad of cash on the table! :rolleyes:

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HeySal

11 years ago

Thanks for the timely warning, TB - I was just about to put an ad on FB for my Kindle book, Saving Ricky: The Second Rescue. I could have made a bundle and ruined my life forever! Whew. Just in time.

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whateverpedia

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Thanks for the timely warning, TB - I was just about to put an ad on FB for my Kindle book, Saving Ricky: The Second Rescue. I could have made a bundle and ruined my life forever! Whew. Just in time.

Rich or poor Sal, we won't reject you.

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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Rich or poor Sal, we won't reject you.

Nuts. You just foiled my last excuse for not figuring out how to put this stupid ad up. It's like a freaking puzzle, I swear. I put my funds in last time and screwed something up so furious that they only showed it to 23 people and took about 4 cents out of my funds......which I only paid the minimum to try it out and see how it worked. Now I have to also add 4 cents just to have the minimum payment for the stinking ad - if I can do it right this time. What a lark. I love making products - it's the rest of this IM shit I can do without.

Oh - and I had a lot of friends when I was younger who fit the gold digger description. Guys either had the bucks or they got the shaft. After a few complete sponges for men, if I hadn't been concerned with my integrity I'd have gone the same route. Not saying I want a guy that will support me - just would be refreshing to find one that didn't want to be supported. First dates are sounding just a tad more than sickeningly like financial interviews these days. The whole world has gone completely bizarre over the bucks. Too many guys that think a woman is supposed to cook, clean, be fun and alluring, and pay bills on top of it all. I'm straight and a monastery would collapse if I walked in the door so I have to deal with men but it's looking like the only way to deal with most of them (and I'm talking singles, I don't take cuts) is with a cross and garlic necklace. Good grief people (yes both sexes) can be sooooooo worthless.

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bizgrower

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Nuts. You just foiled my last excuse for not figuring out how to put this stupid ad up. It's like a freaking puzzle, I swear. I put my funds in last time and screwed something up so furious that they only showed it to 23 people and took about 4 cents out of my funds......which I only paid the minimum to try it out and see how it worked. Now I have to also add 4 cents just to have the minimum payment for the stinking ad - if I can do it right this time. What a lark. I love making products - it's the rest of this IM shit I can do without.

Oh - and I had a lot of friends when I was younger who fit the gold digger description. Guys either had the bucks or they got the shaft. After a few complete sponges for men, if I hadn't been concerned with my integrity I'd have gone the same route. Not saying I want a guy that will support me - just would be refreshing to find one that didn't want to be supported. First dates are sounding just a tad more than sickeningly like financial interviews these days. The whole world has gone completely bizarre over the bucks. Too many guys that think a woman is supposed to cook, clean, be fun and alluring, and pay bills on top of it all. I'm straight and a monastery would collapse if I walked in the door so I have to deal with men but it's looking like the only way to deal with most of them (and I'm talking singles, I don't take cuts) is with a cross and garlic necklace. Good grief people (yes both sexes) can be sooooooo worthless.

It's gone from "What's your sign?" to "What's your credit score?"

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ozzie2012

11 years ago

Hmmm.. money or a woman? I choose.... M.O.N.E.Y !!!! But that's just me

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tagiscom

11 years ago

Nuts. You just foiled my last excuse for not figuring out how to put this stupid ad up. It's like a freaking puzzle, I swear. I put my funds in last time and screwed something up so furious that they only showed it to 23 people and took about 4 cents out of my funds......which I only paid the minimum to try it out and see how it worked. Now I have to also add 4 cents just to have the minimum payment for the stinking ad - if I can do it right this time. What a lark. I love making products - it's the rest of this IM shit I can do without.

Hmmmm, sounds like PPV or Dirt Cheap Traffic, tried both, and they both suck!

Hope l don't see your laptop flying through one of your windows? :rolleyes:

Oh - and I had a lot of friends when I was younger who fit the gold digger description. Guys either had the bucks or they got the shaft. After a few complete sponges for men, if I hadn't been concerned with my integrity I'd have gone the same route. Not saying I want a guy that will support me - just would be refreshing to find one that didn't want to be supported. First dates are sounding just a tad more than sickeningly like financial interviews these days. The whole world has gone completely bizarre over the bucks. Too many guys that think a woman is supposed to cook, clean, be fun and alluring, and pay bills on top of it all. I'm straight and a monastery would collapse if I walked in the door so I have to deal with men but it's looking like the only way to deal with most of them (and I'm talking singles, I don't take cuts) is with a cross and garlic necklace. Good grief people (yes both sexes) can be sooooooo worthless.

Yep, cash on the table first, girlfriend second!

Or some cash on the table, with more to come, and then the girlfriend!!!!

Shane

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HeySal 11 years ago

Originally Posted by tagiscom

Hmmmm, sounds like PPV or Dirt Cheap Traffic, tried both, and they both suck!

Shane

It's a facebook ad for my fan page, so yeah, it's dirt cheap traffic, LMAO.
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Young Financier

11 years ago

His problem is a good one to have.
Millions of dollars >>>> women

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J Bold

11 years ago

Tell him they'll be other chicks. When the emotional attachment clears up after a few weeks or a month, he'll realize there's tons of other women out there who will take him...and his money.

Whole new problems, now. Got to watch out for the gold diggers.

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tagiscom

11 years ago

It's a facebook ad for my fan page, so yeah, it's dirt cheap traffic, LMAO.

Right, haven't tried Facebook ad's, and l probably never will?

Shane :rolleyes:

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AprilCT

11 years ago

One can only hope this man is mature enough to know the difference between a real girl friend and the gold diggers. Someone out to tell him to slow down and take time to really get to know someone before he finds a "replacement" for the one he lost.

Money isn't everything, but it sure helps.

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thunderbird

11 years ago

Originally Posted by AprilCT

One can only hope this man is mature enough to know the difference between a real girl friend and the gold diggers. Someone out to tell him to slow down and take time to really get to know someone before he finds a "replacement" for the one he lost.

Money isn't everything, but it sure helps.

I doubt that gold diggers would even suspect he's wealthy. He doesn't flaunt his wealth and is as badly dressed as Steven Spielberg (sort of looks like him as a young man, too, come to think of it).

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Shadowflux 11 years ago

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if she liked having him be financially dependent on her. Perhaps she has some issues with rejection or fears of abandonment. She may have enjoyed being the one in power and when that was changed she no longer enjoyed the relationship. If this is true then it's good that they ended it. Your friend deserves someone who actually cares about him.

Perhaps I'm being overly pessimistic.
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LisaCashHanson

11 years ago

Tell him not to worry she's not the type of girl he wants to be with anyway. He'll meet someone else.

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