To Want a Richer Man?

[ChegPasty]

Obviously I am but do any of you ever feel this way?

My DH is incredible by anyone's standards, couldn't fault him. His parents are not particularly wealthy and he has a below average salary. We get by and he's not tight with the money he does have.

I'm slowly qualifying in a career that comes with a large salary. It will be a while before I get there but I work alongside lots with million + salaries. They're mostly men with wives who don't have to work and they have incredible lives (from the outside). They walk around in designer clothes and shoes, holiday for most of the year and go 1st class or private, drive flash cars, they have beautiful homes and want for nothing.

AIBU to want in on this even though I have a man who adores me? I work ridiculously hard long hours and couldn't even imagine spending the amount of money some of these women do on a pair of shoes and I sometimes wonder what the point is.

Divorced, full time working mother, two teens. Earn a good whack, love my job and having purpose, but I feel the pressures with no partner and no other salary to lean on.

Just like to meet a good man. Tortoise giver or not.

Haven't read whole thread but was married to a man on VERY good salary - had a brilliant lifestyle - was miserable as he was horrible to me (we get on well now we're not married!)

Now marrying lovely man who earns less than a quarter of ex - so happy

So money doesn't mean everything

GoldenWorld: in the canteen at geeky uni.

I can tell you this much.

If your health is good then you are very wealthy and blessed:-)

Gawd op I bet you wish you'd never posted!

I think it's ok to envy others and I think it's great that you are ambitious and want to better yourself so you can have a few nice things - cars, shoes or whatever - it's fine to desire those things

I don't think you are vulgar

What I would say is that it is always sensible to date people who are as ambitious as you as if you don't then you find yourself in the situation you are now presented with!

However as others have pointed out there are positives in your relationship to be had in place of high earnings so I suppose it's about whether you can accept that.