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Marry for love or money ?

107 replies

novembeer · 13/11/2021 21:09

If u have to marry someone which one u will choose love or money .. u cannot choose both so plz don't say both ..

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HainaultViaNewburyPark · 13/11/2021 22:28

If you make your own money, then is it worth marrying at all? Bit of a risk I’d say.

ChippyChipper · 13/11/2021 22:29

When I was younger I’d have said Love and I did. Problem is you can’t control how long it’s going to be reciprocated for.

Now I’m older and wiser I’d definitely say Money.

At least if you marry a rich man and he turns into an arsehole, you get 50%.

CatonMat · 13/11/2021 22:29

Money for me.

Love didn't work, I'm skint and exhausted by life.

chillied · 13/11/2021 22:30

Money is ephemeral though. It gets spent. The job gets lost. Any twist of fate can happen. I can't see how "marrying for money" is something you can guarantee will continue (in the manner to which you'd like to be accustomed)

Teamwork and making your own money are the ways forward

Receptionclass · 13/11/2021 22:43

I'd rather be single than marry someone I didn't love but I wouldn't love someone who was work shy. They don't have to be rich however, just reasonably intelligent with a decent work ethic.

CatonMat · 13/11/2021 22:50

I'd be part of a teamwork set up.
He gives me money, I spend it.
I'd be happy at home doing all the houseworky stuff.

79andnotout · 13/11/2021 22:51

Make your own money. Don't get married.

MassiveHoard · 13/11/2021 22:54

Neither. Don't marry.

DariaMorgendorffer · 13/11/2021 23:13

Love, no question.

Jada1234 · 13/11/2021 23:15

Love ofcourse

greenlynx · 13/11/2021 23:16

Love.
I wouldn’t be able to tolerate another person in my personal space without love.

RedWingBoots · 13/11/2021 23:19

@ChippyChipper

When I was younger I’d have said Love and I did. Problem is you can’t control how long it’s going to be reciprocated for.

Now I’m older and wiser I’d definitely say Money.

At least if you marry a rich man and he turns into an arsehole, you get 50%.

You will have to fight for every penny to get that 50%.

Marry for money and you will earn every penny of it.

FindingMeno · 13/11/2021 23:19

Money.
I'm not gonna to lie.

Time40 · 13/11/2021 23:26

Love doesn’t exist

What a sad comment. Of course it does!

IStoppedBelieving · 13/11/2021 23:30

@Time40

Love doesn’t exist

What a sad comment. Of course it does!

I don’t think it’s sad, just reality.
Maze76 · 13/11/2021 23:37

I married for love and ended up being dumped for another woman, having my self esteem trampled, having to sell my home and lost out on having kids. Love is a lie, used by Hollywood to sell movies. Marry for money ladies.. you will be much better for it!

FissionMailed · 13/11/2021 23:38

@Time40

Love doesn’t exist

What a sad comment. Of course it does!

Balls..

If it existed, you could prove it very easily.
Belief does not equal existence.

P1mum · 13/11/2021 23:39

Love 100%

I left a relationship where I was doing ok, young and on low wages but paying off a low mortgage and would have been debt free by now (mid 30s). I took on a loan when I left to effectively buy myself out of the relationship. Ended up in more debt. Rented for 10 years and had to start from scratch and I don't regret it one bit as I found love and happiness. Some of my best memories are from times when I had no money in the bank and was raiding the copper jar to buy toilet roll. We laugh about it now.

I'm also a lot more financially stable now thankfully

samesign · 13/11/2021 23:44

I tried love too many times, This time I choose money!

nannybeach · 14/11/2021 07:31

Money can't buy you love! So sayeth the song. If you truly love someone,you put up with and get through the hard times. They loose their job, have a terrible accident, become disabled.

Teeturtle · 14/11/2021 08:39

I would have quite liked to have married into money, but I wouldn’t have done it deliberately. I married a man not from money, but with a good work ethic and who I love.

tarasmalatarocks · 14/11/2021 11:25

It’s a balancing act really— an old saying is when money flies out the window, love flies out the door— on the other hand if you don’t really love a guy but he has money, unless you are lucky that they aren’t around much, you’re going to be spending a lot of time in their company which is hard if there really isn’t any love at all.

PickupaPenguin8 · 14/11/2021 11:56

I think if you’re going to marry for money that’s OK, but at least choose someone you respect and like and get on with well. Plenty of countries have arranged marriages which work on that basis.

CatonMat · 14/11/2021 21:21

That would be my ideal.
Someone I really liked, who liked me back, and who could provide me with a comfortable life.

That is how a lot of loved up people end up, anyway.

GiveMeYourDog · 14/11/2021 21:51

Not really a believer of love,so i’ll say, MONEY!

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