Advice: A reader is frustrated by family members’ pressure to marry rich, and wonders whether all women are told the same.
Well, I didn’t take that route. Instead, through hard work in a lucrative and male-dominated field, I have made a lot of money myself. I married someone I love very much but who is most certainly not the rich, blue-bloody man my family thought was for me.
Regardless, that has no bearing on you now. You made lucid choices then, and you believe in them still. That’s winning most of the battle against this “trope.” All that’s left is to silence those old voices in your head that are making you so self-conscious. If this isn’t just internal — if you have family members who are still voicing or hinting at their disapproval — then use either silence plus death stare or say, “Did you really just say that to me?”
· Rich men are used to getting their way. Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life. It’s the lesson I learned divorcing an abusive man with a well-off father — not royalty, but with enough money to take me to court repeatedly for the next 18 years.
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