Do ‘Poor’ men have affairs and who’d want to have one with them?

[OnMyWayToLivingMyBestLife]

IME it seems to be ‘rich’ men who cheat on their wives. They have money and spare time for extra ‘fun’ and seem to become more arrogant and entitled the better off they are. By rich, I mean well above average salary, senior jobs, or own businesses which require them to work late, business travel etc.

Do less well off men have affairs? I’ve not known any. Would a woman be attracted to an affair with someone on minimum wage who drives an old car and who was living month to month?

@ReggaetonLente

Did you never watch Jeremy Kyle?

Came to say the exact same thing!

@category12

I mean if you look disbelievingly at men having affairs when they're skint, what do you think is going on with the women they're married on in long relationships with? Surely it makes even less sense for women to marry these men, if you believe your horrible premise?

It makes more sense to shag a skint guy than it does to marry him. If money was the relevant thing.

Absolutely this!

Have you never seen the casanovas on Jeremy Kyle?

@DrWAnkenstein

Have you read Lady Chatterley's Lover, OP?

Never mind that - has she read Take a Break?

From my time watching Jeremy Kyle, a man needs neither a job, a house, a car nor any intelligence or teeth to have women fighting over him.

My cousins’ husband has cheated on her many times. He’s poor, usually unemployed, massively unhealthy (obese with type 2 diabetes and copd), teeth missing, smells bad and is fairly old. The only things he’s shown talent in is leering, creepy jokes about women and staring at boobs. I‘be no idea how he attracts anyone but flies but suppose he must have hidden charms that he’s never revealed to the family (thank god!).

OP, why do you think Lady Chatterley had an affair with the gardener?

I know some people live in little bubbles but it's still always staggering when you hear what comes out of their mouths.

the title of your thread reeks of snobbery OP!

Affairs are more about it "it's luuuurve innit!" .......they're not exclusive to 'rich men/people'....

Just remembered something that happened years ago, before the pub over the road from me was demolished. Kept me entertained for weeks! It was that that started me sleeping with the window wide open so I didnt miss anything!

One weekend there was a right old slanging match outside between two women. W1 was battering W2 for shagging "her" bloke. Bloke was stood watching them
Next weekend, same thing happened again. Then I found out (my neighbours friend worked there) that W1 and bloke split up and he was with W2. Two weeks later yet another fight as W2 has found that bloke was still knocking off W1. This went on again for a couple of weekends and then W1 announces she is PG and bloke and her are back together. Another fight as W2 announces that she too is PG and W1 accuses her of doing it on pupose..... no idea if either of them were or whose babies they were as it turned out that W2 was also knocking off someone elses husband at the same time.

What got to me about it was that at no point did either of them stick one on the cheating arsehole who was playing them along. And he was NOT a catch. More eyes than teeth, more teeth than brain cells.

@PyongyangKipperbang “More eyes than teeth, more teeth than brain cells”. I must not forget that one .

@Babdoc my DP does one of the professions you mention and I can confirm plenty of wives of those types of men have tried their luck

Did you ever see any episodes of Jeremy Kyle op? Men who look like a bag of spanners with two teeth in their head, having a wife and a couple of girlfriends on the side, babies to multiple women etc. Wealth was irrelevant.

I know someone who literally was shagging the gas man, he wasn’t exactly rich either.

Remember Jeremy Kyle ? Apparently you don’t even need teeth.

My ex didn't have a pot to piss in, yet he was always at it, as a found out he was a serial cheater and had done it in every relationship he'd ever had.
He lived off me for free for a couple of years, as he paid precisely fuck all towards his own upkeep or towards his children (not mine) while lying through his teeth that he didn't have much money because his ex made him support her as well as the kids and what was left he had to spend keeping me and my dogs...... When in fact neither of us saw a penny.
I think most women (including me) fell for the nice guy down on his luck routine, he had hardly any clothes and possessions - told me the ex had trashed them, told the next one I had when in reality he didn't have them because apart from clothes, he just hopped from woman to woman, so didn't need any. He was seemingly more attractive for his lack of money and things - poor guy, treated like that by his ex, nothing left, works so hard..... He drank all his wages while his kids and those he lived with went without.

My uncle doesn't have a penny to rub together but has extramarital affairs all over the shop. The affairs are just with other people who also don't have much money.

😆😆 at Jezza Kyle and Take a Break. Forgot about those mines of evidence!

I would think that for some the size of his penis is more important than the size of his wallet.

Not me.

Confidence, gift of the gab and a big knob will superceed any monetary aphrodisiac. Don't assume infedelity is a rich man or womans sport. Its certanly not exclusive to any class.

They all cheat

OP wants us to know she's never had a bit of rough, eh!

My ex cheated. He was on a good salary but he was appalling with money. He didn't have a pot to p*ss in.

@Jericoo the way you worded yours made me laugh out loud.

Mine cheated and we (I mean me and the kids) were living month to month with the help of payday loans.

He left with all his (secret, until he tried to blame me) debt (racked up by impressing the OW) and they split up a year later when she probably realised it wasn’t me spending all his money and he was actually living beyond his means.

It wasn’t until he was gone that I realised the true extent of the emotional and financial abuse I had been subjected to.

I think its more about having the arrogance and entitlement which is surprisingly common in individuals one might least expect this from.