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Dating up or down? How shallow can you be? I dated a man that made less money than I do because he was funny and sweet and intelligent and phenomenally talented.
Oh, yeah, and HE was the successful one, not me. I have a regular, boring office job. He was a working musician in Nashville, well thought of by his peers and highly in demand for studio work and touring. He simply did not make as much money as I do.
How can the author of this article think that the measure of a man - or woman - has anything to do with earning power?
When I was growing up in the 1960's, I somehow took in that anybody worth dating or marrying was supposed to be older, smarter, taller, and better educated than me. Plus cute. Higher income went without saying, since if I was earning a living at all, I'd definitely fallen down on the job of hooking the taller, richer, older, smarter, better-educated cute guy.
