“It’s The Most Miserable Marriage I’ve Ever Seen”: 30 Stories Of People Dating And Marrying Rich

While sitting in a bar and chatting with your friends, the question "What are you looking for in a romantic partner?" may seem like an easy one to answer. We mention emotional intelligence, kindness, a sense of humor, attractiveness, and other common attributes that come to mind and that's that.

But when we get to the point when we're actually considering whether or not to get involved with someone, the list can narrow down pretty fast — many of us have a non-negotiable. Some factor that we think is a must (not) for a happily-ever-after. Like wealth.

So we at Bored Panda decided to comb through the internet and see how this decision (choosing your SO based on the amount of money they have) pays off. Here's a collection of stories where people revealed how their life has unfolded since they went after someone with full pockets.

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"It's The Most Miserable Marriage I've Ever Seen": 30 Stories Of People Dating And Marrying Rich ok, not me, but a close friend from the middle-east.

so he comes from a middle-class background with lower-class roots, and is pretty smart in a well-rounded way. he's pretty handsome, well-read, articulate, polite, emotionally intelligent...etc. the kinda guy who almost always makes the good decision, but is limited in potential due to a lack of connections and wealth.

so anyway, his uncle works for this really rich and established family who are looking for someone to marry their only daughter, the only problem is that this family, although really blessed financially, didn't win the genetic lottery, so to speak. in fact, one could say that they're kinda cursed... they carry a fatal genetic defect that causes a rare form of muscular degeneracy, one that has decimated their family in the last two generations.

so my friend proposes anyway (the girl is charming, and is quite intelligent to boot), and the father had given rather unsubtle hints that good things would come to him if they were to get married, and he wasn't lying. the couple get married and move into a really big house that was sold to him by the father for a no-money down, pay-when-you-can loan. he gives him a great, very well-paying job in his company and even gifts him a new car.

so my friend, being the intelligent, ambitious, and promising individual that he is, moves up the ranks quickly, is given another loan by the dad to start a small business on the side, and in a few years has already bought a couple of properties for himself.

now all this time, they're getting closer together as a couple. really closer, he's gone from seeing this relationship as one of mutual convenience to real love and respect. he appreciates all the doors that marrying her has opened, and she appreciates the risks that he took in terms of marrying someone who might die early and pass on the disease to their progeny. a few years later, they have a wonderful baby girl who shows no signs of the disease. but sadly, within five years or so of their marriage, the wife -who already had signs of the disease- starts to get really sick, and over the next couple of years, she deteriorates to the point where she's either in hospitals or bed-ridden.

she died last year of complications, her heart literally gave out a few days after their eleventh anniversary. so here he is, raising a seven year-old daughter, and absolutely heart-broken. he had become so deeply in love with his wife that losing her completely shattered him.

although he's rich as hell now, and will become much, much more so when her parents die, because the dad put him and the grand-daughter as the heirs to the family wealth, he's still suffering. and even though i'm sure the pain will lessen with time, and he'll eventually get remarried, he's kind of an emotional mess right now.

so a few months ago, i invited him to come hang out with me for a while in Bali, i figured the island atmosphere would help soothe his mind a bit, give him some perspective, or at least a reprieve from the emotional grind. so we're sitting on this empty beach at sundown, with a bottle of mccallan and the thin remnants of waves lapping at our toe's.

i let him spill it all out, just train of thought type storytelling, about the good days and the bad days and everything in between. and in the end, he tells me that it was worth it all, not for the money, but for the chance to be with her for that short while.

afellowinfidel , Taylor Brandon Report

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