More importantly, will Ryan Gosling learn to love my belly if I recite Nietzsche to him by heart?
It's nice to know that even those of us without the physique of Heidi Klum can still find ourselves someone special if we make sure our other attributes are on the up and up. It's no mystery that wealthy men, despite how conventionally imperfect their bodies may be, can score themselves a hot, and frankly, out of their physical league, girlfriend or wife.
Big spenders! Men spend more on a first date in Denver than in any other U.S. city.
If you're the type of woman who likes to be treated like a queen but are having trouble finding the right guy, you might want to take a trip to Colorado. Denver has been named the city with the most generous single men, according to a study from WhatsYourPrice.com, which found that guys there spend an average of $221 on the first date. The other cities in the top five were Seattle, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and Los Angeles.
When you hold a student loan large enough to cancel out third-world debt and regularly wear second-hand clothes, it’s not unusual to dream up ways to improve your financial lot. Some women fantasize about a rich Prince Charming sweeping them off their feet, but I’ve never been one to imagine romance as a means to financial success. Women who use sex to lure the wealthy have always seemed to me like swindlers who disgrace the female gender and kill the spirit of love.
Then along came a man who said those four little words every woman supposedly wants to hear.
“Can I keep you?”
I met the Professor, a political science scholar and ‘60s era activist, years ago at an academic conference. He was a lanky man with bulbous eyes, a silver mane of oddball-academic hair and a slobbery old guy mouth he kept dabbing with a handkerchief. Not exactly Robert Redford in a tux.
Wealthy people are cutting back on expensive gifts for Valentine's Day this year.
According to a survey by the National Retail Federation, flash is out in 2009. Wealthy folks are cutting back in lavish V-day gifts, but not necessarily because they can't afford them. According to Reuters, who interviewed a luxury marketing researcher, "the super-wealthy were anxious about 'being labeled as ostentatious' and were 'pulling back substantially.'"
Money's role in your relationship may be greater than you realize.
"All you need is love." That's what the Beatles said, and it remains a pretty tempting. It doesn't matter how rich your husband is, right? If you love someone it doesn't matter if he's a jobless pauper—you'll make it work, somehow. Well, the Beatles didn't live through the recession of the late aughts—and some of today's women are realizing that their relationships are more dependent on money than they once believed.
Donald Trump feels like successful dudes have more sex drive, just sayin'.
Donald Trump came out and said it. Dudes that are successful have more sex drive. The rest of the men of the world are contemplating what to do next: play more video games, start Katherine Heigl fansites, or just join a monastery and call it quits. This is a sad, sad day for the other 98%.
