Love x Money x Job x Fame

[Wayne Goodwin]

At your age now and what you have learned in life ! Say you met a person and fell in Love . Along came an offered to give you Money , maybe a Job with all benefits in life  or Fame to not marry that person .

Would you choose Money Job  Fame over Marriage to that person ?

[Wayne Goodwin]

For me , LOVE .....

[Karin M Fichtner]

Do you want me to be gut-level honest? At this point in my life.....I'll take the money and run. I married for love three times.....and all it gave me was heartache, bills, an empty bank account, two reposessed cars, and not one, but two foreclosed houses. Nope. Love gets you nowhere; I'll take money now.

[Wayne Goodwin]

Think I will take back what I said . Money woud help in getting mee things I need in life now now now ...

[flippr 2.0]

I gotta go with you Karin,love won't get you money,but money will get you love.

[Karin M Fichtner]

Maybe.....but it won't be love worth having. You won't be lacking for female company......that's for sure. But, is it you they want? Or your money?

Wayne.....I have been used and abused so many times in the name of love over the years.....and I gave away so much of myself while getting damned little in return......that the only thing I trust to take care of me anymore is money. I am good with money; I don't blow it on junk. I don't need millions to keep me happy; I just need to know I'll still have a roof over my head tomorrow. Believe me.....there were a lot of times when I wasn't sure what I was going to feed my kids the next day. Now....as a retired old lady living on Social Security....I am living more comfortably than in any of my three marriages. I can go to bed at night without lying awake worrying about how to get through tomorrow. The stress headaches are gone. I don't want to entrust my security to another person.....ever again.

[crestofwaves]

Love is the answer for me.  I can earn my own  money.

However, like Karin, now that I am older, I can tolerate a relatively good person if I am floating around the Mediterranean on his yacht.  I don't need the bells and whistles as much as I used to, and if I want them, I have to bring them, no?

[Wayne Goodwin]

Now if I were a woman I would have me a time . Yep  !

[Wayne Goodwin]

Don't recall ever felt loved by my x or my first love . More like being used . No oher woman ever come in my life since 1983 . Never has much sex drive so like of sex didn't kill me . The want of being loved and I mean mentally was and still is painful . Seems my x  only got turned on was when we went to a drive in to seee aa xxx movie that is if she was horny  after driving back home 40 miles . Pathetic isn't it .....

[frenchy]

its an age old question ain't it ?? whats more important .. the love .. or the comforts of life .. because after all thats what money is all about isn't it ?? and last is the recognition for what you've done .. the ego thing .. you starred in a movie or you performed on stage .. or you discovered a new element or won the nobel peace prize or cured cancer or wrote a book .. or you're just a standup comic who can make people laugh ..whatever .. so whats more important .. eeeeeeee.. all of them are important but the older i get .. well the ego thing is pretty much gone for me .. i don't need that to feel happy .. don't get me wrong its nice to be recognized for somethin i've done if its somethin good .. but i don't NEEED THAT ..  and in fact if it got to be too much i know i'd hate it .. most people think fame is great .. till they get some of it .. and if they get a lot of it then it can really depress you .. i like money as much as anybody else but i'll be honest if i hit the jackpot i really have no idea what i'd do with a mountain of cash .. i don't need all that much .. so that leaves love .. so my question would be .. is it real love ?? the kind that you can count on ?? the kind that won't let you down and break your heart ?? or is it the kind that makes promises and then breaks em ?? if its real love then i'll take real love every time .. even tho i know its not perfect .. real love is worth more than anything else .. because when you come right down to it everything else is just mickey mouse when you compare it to real love .. 

[Karin M Fichtner]

Now, see, French?  By the time you find out if it was "REAL LOVE"......or not.......you find yourself up to your neck in bills and homeless.....while he finds a new gal to infatuate.  I don't have the kind of time left in my life to take that chance again.  I just don't.  Love......and whether or not it's "real"......is way to much of a gamble anymore.  Money and the comfort and security that go with it......well, that's a constant.  Money never turns out to be something else.  As long as you handle it well.....it will always give you the same return for your investment. 

[frenchy]

i understand your position karin and i was thinkin of you when i wrote my reply .. i know there are a lot of people who have been bruised and battered and broken and shattered by love .. which was why i said ..  REAL LOVE ..  not the empty promises kind .. so your next question if i might be so bold as to read your mind would be how do you know ..and my answer was IF IT WAS REAL LOVE .. .. 

[flippr 2.0]

money is something someone loves you for anyway.