Love watching the Jane Austen period dramas and the most recent one Sense and Sensibility. One thing that always strikes me is that although they’re all so supposedly delicate in talking about certain matters this does not apply to money and it’s very much one of the first things that’s looked at in considering future partner. I always though this was an old fashioned idea that seemed certainly to have gone out in the sixties and seventies during my parents generation.
But I feel it’s become quite an important issue again just from talking to friends. Perhaps I’m wrong but one male friend of mine feels he won’t really get a ‘good’ girlfriend because he hasn’t got his own place and lives in a shared house with others. I don’t know what he means by ‘good’. It seems it’s not so much as building your lives together anymore as bringing your share to the table and hoping your partner can match it. Perhaps it’s because people are settling older or maybe I’m just being cynical but I have noticed it more and more. I’m curious as to other people’s experience/ opinion on whether money/property is important to people when considering potential partners. I’d like to think relationships haven’t become that mercenary but listening to one or two female friends with agendas for potential boyfriends I’m starting to feel romance is dead.
But I feel it’s become quite an important issue again just from talking to friends. Perhaps I’m wrong but one male friend of mine feels he won’t really get a ‘good’ girlfriend because he hasn’t got his own place and lives in a shared house with others. I don’t know what he means by ‘good’. It seems it’s not so much as building your lives together anymore as bringing your share to the table and hoping your partner can match it. Perhaps it’s because people are settling older or maybe I’m just being cynical but I have noticed it more and more. I’m curious as to other people’s experience/ opinion on whether money/property is important to people when considering potential partners. I’d like to think relationships haven’t become that mercenary but listening to one or two female friends with agendas for potential boyfriends I’m starting to feel romance is dead.