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Stop being jealous of rich woman

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Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 16:25

All this envy some of you have towards women married to rich men.
HE has the money not her if she's given up her job to look after the kids shes pretty much stuck can't even run away unless it's to live in a tent because he pays the rent and she has none of her own money. Technically could be starved by him because he's 100% in control of the finances.

Same goes for the kids actually just because they have a rich dad doesn't mean he isn't beating ten tons of shit out of them

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Slightyamusedandsilly · 18/08/2025 18:18

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 18:08

Well you may not but there's plenty on here happy to report a woman for welfare fraud for not declaring a new partner straight away and exercising some caution getting to know him because just because one is dating someone doesn't mean they help you financially.
Same applies to millionaire couples plenty of birds in golden cages out there

I was with you until this point.

If she's living with him (regardless of his financial position) she shouldn't be claiming benefits as single/living alone.

StrokeRecovery25 · 18/08/2025 18:19

Backs out slowly...

but not before saying.... there IS help out there if you need it.

PinkFlloyd · 18/08/2025 18:19

I'm married and I don't work, but I still own half of the house...Who are these wealthy renters?

Thepeopleversuswork · 18/08/2025 18:21

@Sackofsatchels

Seems to be a lot of people who don't like this post.
What part do you disagree with?

Most people just don't know what you're talking about

GreenFlag · 18/08/2025 18:23

The heading and the post make no sense.

Has your bingo been cancelled tonight?

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 18:24

Thepeopleversuswork · 18/08/2025 18:12

I don't really understand who your beef is with, OP.

Are you pissed off at people assuming that all women with healthy husbands are happy?

Are you pissed off at people who are jealous of women with wealthy husbands?

Are you pissed off at people having a go at "benefits scroungers"? Your post makes no sense.

Also do you know some women earn their own money?

People that bitterly moan about the "privileged" wives and kids of rich men annoy me. Thatt is built on the assumption hes a good man. You don't think it matters but he's real life consequences kids in those situations have missed out on going to university seeing as the loan is based on your parents income as if everyone gets on with their parents.

And all the snakes on here that brag about reporting their poor on welfare friends/sisters etc for fraud because they don't declare their new partner straight away. That's also assuming he helps out. People have killed themselves over the stress of being reported

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Skinnyblonde · 18/08/2025 18:27

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 16:25

All this envy some of you have towards women married to rich men.
HE has the money not her if she's given up her job to look after the kids shes pretty much stuck can't even run away unless it's to live in a tent because he pays the rent and she has none of her own money. Technically could be starved by him because he's 100% in control of the finances.

Same goes for the kids actually just because they have a rich dad doesn't mean he isn't beating ten tons of shit out of them

I am married to a partner in a law firm. There’s some truth to this. If I want the lifestyle then yes I’m stuck I guess.. but it’s balance.. there’s good and bad. I have less stress as I don’t work and we get on pretty well xx

Anchorage56 · 18/08/2025 18:34

This is a very confusing thread about both the rich and also people reporting potential benefit fraud 🤯🤣

Icreatedausernameyippee · 18/08/2025 18:35

I'd rather cry in a Bentley than my Yaris.

ARamblingRoseGarden · 18/08/2025 18:35

Life's too short OP. No idea what you're on about. Sounds like you are the wife living in Asshole Mansions.

TorroFerney · 18/08/2025 18:37

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 16:48

People often look at a wealthy family and assume they're all "privileged" as it gets said on this site all the time. Just because the man is rich that doesn't mean the wife or kids see a crumb of the money other than the "privilege" of living in an assholes mansion.

Conversely they do the same to poor woman there's a thread in actives rn about reporting welfare fraud if a woman is dating a man and doesn't declare him straight away. Like dating a man necessarily means he helps with the bills

You'd perhaps be better going on those specific threads rather than telling off the rest of us who've not been near them - I am more parking and advice about batshit mothers.

Idontpostmuch · 18/08/2025 18:37

TheCurious0range · 18/08/2025 17:40

I make my own money thanks and actually I feel sorry for women who've chosen to be dependent on a man

You're as bad as the OP. Terribly patronising.

Tinytigertail · 18/08/2025 18:38

That you Melania?

TorroFerney · 18/08/2025 18:39

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 17:43

I've heard enough stories, not just wives of rich men but kids too. People assume they're "privileged spoilt brats" etc but dad beats them and the only part of the wealth they see is living in the big hellhole of a mansion

I have heard no stories, where are these stories, where can I read them?

DancingNotDrowning · 18/08/2025 18:41

People often look at a wealthy family and assume they're all "privileged" as it gets said on this site all the time

what if the woman made all the money and it’s her poor down trodden DH we should be feeling sorry for?!

NamelessNancy · 18/08/2025 18:42

DancingNotDrowning · 18/08/2025 18:41

People often look at a wealthy family and assume they're all "privileged" as it gets said on this site all the time

what if the woman made all the money and it’s her poor down trodden DH we should be feeling sorry for?!

Edited

Don't be silly, that's impossible!

Cranberryavocado · 18/08/2025 18:51

I know quite a few women married to rich men and they are having a whale of a time good luck to them 😂

Cranberryavocado · 18/08/2025 18:51

NamelessNancy · 18/08/2025 18:42

Don't be silly, that's impossible!

Edited

My DH would disagree😂

KilkennyCats · 18/08/2025 18:52

Wealthy people are privileged.
That some may also be abusive (like people from all walks of life) is irrelevant, really.

Ontobetterthings · 18/08/2025 18:54

You dont sound like you are from the UK. We dont say assholes and we dont say welfare. Just saying.

MellowPinkDeer · 18/08/2025 18:54

I’m rich but I don’t need a man to do it. I’d never be jealous of someone who need a man to provide for them, I actually feel sorry for them in many circumstances as they literally have nothing of their own and the whole Situation is very precarious . This post is very odd.

MrsMcGarry · 18/08/2025 19:00

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 16:41

Point is she can't just leave him and rent or buy her own place because it's HIM that holds the purse strings so she's pretty much a bird trapped in a golden cage

This is bollocks.
Course she can - even in cases of financial abuse solicitors will often handle divorces of rich couples on account because they know the assets are there to cover their bills in future. And starting point for a divorce is 50:50, and then she can do what she likes.

I was a woman married to a high earning man (and I'd helped build up our wealth before bringing up kids and facilitating his career) and whilst my life was not at all perfect and he was quite abusive, it was a damn sight better being rich in that situation that it was being poor in that situation.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 18/08/2025 19:03

Are you talking about your own situation OP?

I don't think you are originally British, you may be from the UK but some of your terms are wrong should be 'gilded cage' not 'golden cage'.

Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 19:07

Ontobetterthings · 18/08/2025 18:54

You dont sound like you are from the UK. We dont say assholes and we dont say welfare. Just saying.

Born and bred in the UK as were my parents and grandparents yeah we definitely say assholes. And I personally prefer welfare to benefits just rolls off the tongue better not that it matters 🙄

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Sackofsatchels · 18/08/2025 19:08

Even if Im from Timbuktu my point still stands!

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