I find it funny that
@Atelier3 wants to comment on my post saying no no no I am wrong and adults blah blah blah when 10 minutes later I read a thread he paid his ex his life savings.
Sure buddy....
That's why she's my ex. It was an unfortunate and misguided marriage. It's unrealistic to expect that every single relationship or marriage one enters into will be fairytale perfect. I got married at 24'ish and by 35'ish I was a completely different person and so was she. We grew apart and found ourselves wanting different things in life. I left her. However, we had a child together and she wanted to take that child to another country.
I voluntarily and entirely of my own volition offered her my life savings because at that point in my life I was making about $250k per year and saw that I could easily give her enough money to buy a house and car in Australia while still being young enough myself to rebuild my assets without much difficulty. I saw it as as really a zero loss since the assets I gave her would be inherited by my child eventually anyway. So it did not matter if the kid inherited it from me or from her in the long run.
However, she liquidated the assets and took the kid to live overseas. I didn't see that coming but it simply proved to me that I had been correct in my assessment that we had different values and were not suited to be husband and wife. All it proves was that she was a selfish and manipulative individual (or had become one over the years). But my attitude to material things is easy come easy go so I didn't really get too burned up about the money. I was pissed off about being denied access to my kid though - that was the real trauma.
But I subsequently had another relationship with a different woman where we also had a child. This woman accepted me although I had no assets and was an undischarged bankrupt at the time. A year into that relationship I had a nervous breakdown and developed a serious IV coke addiction. This women then took a second mortgage on her house to pay $50,000 for me to attend a private rehab that absolutely saved my life. She was not a rich woman and had inherited her house from her grandmother and worked a fairly low wage job.
That's true love man. And not just romantic love - it's a kind of deep human to human love and generosity of spirit.
Since we've broken up we've remained friends and work together to mutually support our child. A few years later when my life was sorted and I had money again I offered her an all expenses paid trip to Paris or London out of gratitude for everything she had done for me. At that point I had not had sex with her for maybe 4 years (still haven't and don't want to). She turned it down but did accept a bit of help paying for some education to better her employment prospects in order to be able to make more of a financial contribution to bringing up our kid even though I never complained about the $2,000 in child support I was paying her a month.
So yeah. In my experience of the world and of women you and every other low-rent misogynist on this site are wrong when you use totalising language to judge, condemn, stereotype and otherwise condemn women and their capacity for generosity, selflessness and love.
I could relate stories of other extremely admirable and selfless women who have added wonderfully to my life but it would take too long and as
@Sirena Oscura has recently pointed out to me, you guys that think like this NEVER adjust your attitudes or thinking in the face of evidence contrary to your prejudices.
I'm kind of sorry that you guys live in such a miserable and shabby world full of ugliness and darkness. You really should get out more.