Avoiding Women who are after my Money

aconcernedfriend

Posted: Oct 30, 07 6:58pm

Now that I'm trying to start dating again I have found that many women become more interested when they see the car I drive and find out I own a home in Marin and a flat in San Francisco. It's not that i offer the information, most I've dated so far seem to be digging for that information in conversation. On one date, I could practically SMELL the greed during the interrogation! ( :

I was married for a very long time and did not stray, so I don't have much experience except from friends and colleagues who warned me this would happen, and they were right! The most astounding date so far acted supremely bored until she began quizzing me about my real estate holdings.

I suppose part of the problem is that many women my age who are single are worried about their financial future and looking for someone who can help provide for them, and I do not begrudge them looking for someone who can pull their own weight and contribute to a household. What gets me is women who show no interest until they verify I pay my own bills and could pay some of theirs. I'm sure this happens the other way around, too, because my work friend who talked me into going online to begin with has complained of dates who actually expect her to pay her own way on the first date, or worse--ask if they can just watch a movie at her house because they're broke and they have too many roommates to have privacy.

Is this what the dating scene is like at a "certain age"? Chivalry is dead and everyone is looking for a secure retirement plan instead of romance? I've been thinking I should dress like a pauper and look for my princess in disguise.

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Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:03pm

Now that I'm trying to start dating again I have found that many women become more interested when they see the car I dr...

I would like to add that I don't bring up money but rather that in these instances the women I've been out with ask questions that get to that sort of conversation. I can understand trying to verify a man's got a job and such, but I see the eagerness build in their eyes when they find out about my holdings. In reflection, I suppose women might feel this way when men seem more interested in their looks than their minds. Of course, men sometimes will have more interest in women for financial reasons too, but I am finding more often it's my fortune NOT my looks women go for. Not that I'm a troll, but I'm no Brad Pitt lookalike.

Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:06pm

I would like to add that I don't bring up money but rather that in these instances the women I've been out with ask ques...

I hope I didn't offend anyone, but I do think more often than not women are exploited for looks and men for money. Sad but true. I don't want to be one of those old sad-looking guys with a young golddigger hanging out of my wallet any more than a woman wants a leering guy staring at her breasts when she's discussing Freire. I just want a nice sexy warm woman close to my own age who thinks I'm a prize with or without a financial portfolio, one who isn't looking for a 401K with legs. After my date last night I'm despairing of finding one. The one date I have had with a woman who wasn't turned on by my money was terrific, but then she gave me the age-old "getting back with the ex" line.

Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:40pm

Now that I'm trying to start dating again I have found that many women become more interested when they see the car I dr...

Yes, it is true that there are many women (and men!) who are looking for someone to pave their way to an easy retirement. I have to admit, though I don't consider myself a gold-digger, someone who is financial secure is very appealing to me, but there are more important things to consider than someone's bank account.

There are many women out there who are financially secure in their own right. Just keep looking and don't give up hope yet! I hope that chivalry and romance are not dead, because I am still looking for it!

Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:47pm

Now that I'm trying to start dating again I have found that many women become more interested when they see the car I dr...

I'm sure that with all the money and assets that you have........you can buy the woman of your dreams.

Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:52pm

I'm sure that with all the money and assets that you have........you can buy the woman of your dreams....

If only it were that easy. Sadly, Ingrid Bergman is dead and Scarlett Johannsen is stretched beyond usability. But thank you for your helpful idea.

Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:55pm

Yes, it is true that there are many women (and men!) who are looking for someone to pave their way to an easy retirement...

It's not that I would expect a woman to go for me if I were a penniless drug addict, but what I have found disarming are the women who "perk up" ONLY after discovering I have means. One woman pretty much ignored me until she saw my name on a donation plaque and then she seemed to break into a plague of 1,000,000 locusts shadowing my every move. I'm afraid that loneliness is going to push me into accepting that kind of attention and it frightens me.

Posted: Oct 30, 07 8:05pm

Now that I'm trying to start dating again I have found that many women become more interested when they see the car I dr...

I got confused on what you're looking for. You mentioned, "I just want a nice sexy warm woman close to my own age who thinks I'm a prize with or without a financial portfolio". Are you thinking long term?

I imagine that if you find a woman who's equally or more financially successful, then you won't have to ever wonder what the attraction is.

Being that we're all products of our experiences, I'm sure that man or woman who'd been in a relationship with a leach would be looking for someone more successful. Likewise, anybody who's been with someone successful that was worried about the other potentially being a "gold-digger", may be in the market for someone nice, simple, and not so full of their "stuff".

All the best.