If you won the lottery, would you divorce?

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I was reading about the UKs biggest ever lottery winners who have just announced they have split up. It got me thinking - how many of us would choose to stay with their partner if money was no object?

Absolutely not, I love him and we are together for better or worse...with the better we would have so much time fun planning our adventures and time all together, it would be lovely.

We wouldn't separate. But Wed r3move a lot of the friction from our lives, chores, money, free time.

I'm talking about a million though, not hundreds of millions.

Easily pleased, I am, a million or two would do me, no don't want much.

Yes.

Would solve our "can't afford to separate" issues. So yes, and I'll keep the cash bar buying him a modest house!

No!

When we play 'If I won the lottery' we always would do the same things with the money anyway
Buy a house for us - flats for DBro and BIL and a lump sum/holiday for my parents and PILs.
If we won mega millions it would stress us out and we'd hire a financial advisor to help us give it to NGOs!

Absolutely not.
We've been together for nearly 30 years and I love being married.
I enjoy our time together and hopefully a lottery win would mean we could have more fun together.

No, he could be my travel partner.

Why the hell would having money make you leave your partner?

Use your imagination.

Because lots of couples plod on in unhappy relationships because splitting up is daunting....and expensive.

I already left my useless cocklodger DP, but I'd buy him a house so DD would live in comfort when with him for contact time. I wouldn't ever marry if I had millions in the bank, I'd just have a couple of FWB who could visit me occasionally for fun, and a live in nanny/housekeeper for my homes

No, but we'd probably buy the house joined onto ours, when it comes up for sale! The kids would like a divorce.

I think he would divorce me

No, but we're not married. We've been together longer than many people have been married, though. I wouldn't leave him for anything.

I think tbh quite a proportion of people are in unhappy marriages because of what their partner provides financially.

Having been very miserable with an abusive husband (now ex) in a huge house and now with a lovely fiancé in a small rented two-bed without luxuries, I'd choose love over money every time.

No! But I would travel a lot. Some places he would join me, others he wouldn't. Which is fine.

The first thing I would do, would be to hire a cleaner.

No, I don't think so.

There's been times when I'd have said yes, but most of our problems come from not being able to spend any time together as he works such long hours. The more time we spend together, the better we get on actually.
The other things we bicker about (housework) would also be solved as I'd hire a housekeeper and cleaner, etc, to help me.
We'd want to do similar things with the money and would go travelling, so that wouldn't be an issue either.

Haven’t RTFT yet, but absolutely not. If I won the lottery I would use that money to make an even better life for us. I adore him, he’s a wonderful man.

Being honest...Probably. my husband is a farmer, he loves working (a food thing i know) and if we won he'd wan to keep at it, buy a big estate with farms and shooting and manage it, he says he'd still coke travel the world with me and only do a couple of days work a week but I don't think he would, I think he'd just want to keep building his empire and I wouldn't in all honesty have any interest. This is if we won't like 10 million plus.

I think on 1m I'd give up work and he could carry on

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I do love him very much but our unrealistic dreams differ

Most definitely not. I want to travel the world with him!

No, it wouldn't change our relationship, just our lifestyle.

I wouldn't intend to, no.

However I'm not naive enough to think that a huge windfall would definitely not put any pressure on our relationship. Any major life change can bring a couple closer or rip you apart. There'd be decisions to make, friends might treat us differently, we might have different ideas of the best way to spend it, more opportunities for an affair...

I would love to see the stats on people getting divorced after serious lottery wins. I think it could be pretty interesting reading. Maybe that's where the money doesn't buy happiness thing comes into play.

The problem is a lot of couples are together because it's too troublesome or expensive to divorce and if there are kids involved then people try to stick it out as best they can. These couples don't admit to each other that they are only there for the kids and trudge along normally. Even if one spouse is deliriously in love with the other, it doesn't mean that the other feels the same. Throw in a money grenade and one spouse is off as soon as the money clears in the account.

Also, with working full time out of the equation after a big win, spending a lot of time together definitely starts to show up the cracks in the relationship.

I'd hope not, but I can't even imagine the lifestyle change that much money would bring. It's possible it would change us enough that we would end up divorcing. FX not though, I'm quite keen on him

For me, it would possibly be the flip side of the situation. I'm not married but I fear I would be beating off the gold diggers with a shitty stick if I became a midnight millionaire.