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Love or Money

104 replies

changesoul · 31/07/2021 03:51

If you have to choose between love & money what will you choose & Why? U cannot have both.

OP posts:
itstrue · 31/07/2021 04:14

Love

I have money and trust me if you have no love it's not enough

Buggritbuggrit · 31/07/2021 05:15

How much money are we talking? Bezos levels or just pleasantly well to do? 😂

Also, do we both have to be poor, or can I still have my current level of income?

And why can’t we have both?

So many questions. I think I’m ruining the game.

Jenjenn · 31/07/2021 05:51

Money as long as it doesn't come with a person I don't love.

Wjevtvha · 31/07/2021 06:10

Love: I’ve had money while being on my own and it didnt make me happy

oprahwindfuryy · 31/07/2021 06:19

Money, but not if it came with a person I didn’t love

SarahBellam · 31/07/2021 06:21

As long as I wasn’t ‘couldn’t afford to feed the kids’ poor I’d choose love. I wouldn’t be interested in Bezos level wealth.

MrsTerryPratchett · 31/07/2021 06:24

An absence of love or an absence of money is awful. Staring from neutral, love. Every time.

YouShouldLeave · 31/07/2021 06:31

Money.
I don’t believe in (romantic) love.

MayorGundersonsDogRufus · 31/07/2021 06:46

Love. I can earn my own money.

ByeByeMissAmericanPie · 31/07/2021 06:50

Great to have both, but love trumps money in my book.

alwayswrighty · 31/07/2021 06:53

Love

Money can be earnt

Sunflowergirl1 · 31/07/2021 07:59

Prob love trumps but in reality having no money is utterly grinding in a relationship

EarthSight · 31/07/2021 08:03

You first.

Daily Mail journalist?

changesoul · 31/07/2021 08:06

@Buggritbuggrit

How much money are we talking? Bezos levels or just pleasantly well to do? 😂

Also, do we both have to be poor, or can I still have my current level of income?

And why can’t we have both?

So many questions. I think I’m ruining the game.

U both have below 20k jobs.
OP posts:
crabbingbucket · 31/07/2021 08:07

Are we talking about extremes? Because neither will make you happy if there's a complete lack of the other.

Assuming I can choose love but not be dirt poor I'd choose love.

crabbingbucket · 31/07/2021 08:07

X posts. In that case I'd choose money

BigMamaFratelli · 31/07/2021 08:10

I had to make this choice. I chose love. It was definitely the right choice.

jasminoide · 31/07/2021 08:20

If the rich guy was pleasant and not abusive I'd go for money. It makes life so much easier.

Angelofchaos · 31/07/2021 08:24

Depends. Does the money come with having to marry someone I really don't like?

I wouldn't marry someone I didn't like for money.

But if someone offered me complete financial security, the money to create choices for me and my kids and be single forever, I would pick that.

Bluntness100 · 31/07/2021 08:32

Well both are sheer hell right. No one wants to be skint or unloved.

PearlFriday · 31/07/2021 08:34

If you have enough money yourself, then love.
But ....... can't be arsed being pleasing for some rich guy who might replace me if I'm not earning my place at his wealthy table. Fuck that.

So ... money. But my own. I know! I can't play this game.

PearlFriday · 31/07/2021 08:38

''But if someone offered me complete financial security, the money to create choices for me and my kids and be single forever, I would pick that.''

Yes, this option! I would sacrifice the love option for complete financial security as this would give me and my DC the option to make all of our own choices and pursue all of our own ideas / hobbies / career choices.

changesoul · 31/07/2021 08:40

@EarthSight

You first.

Daily Mail journalist?

Lol No
OP posts:
DinosaurDiana · 31/07/2021 08:42

If I could afford to keep myself - love.

deeplyambivalent · 31/07/2021 08:53

I wanted love. I ended up with financial security and cats. Like the man said, you can't always get what you want but...

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