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If you are rich and famous to the point where you can buy anything you want, then what expectations do you have from the woman in your life? To put it another way, what makes one woman desirable over another?
To answer my own question:I think it just comes down to attractiveness. At a certain point, all you need a woman for is to look good enough to make everyone else jealous, thereby boosting your status even more...but even that boggles me, because "eye candy" is replaceable...so what gets you from a pretty arm decoration to the title of "wife"?
I was at granny's house a couple weeks ago helping her make macaroni and cheese and sweet potato pie, and I said something about her doing the most with all her ingredients and processes and what not. She said to me, "Y'all don't know what it means to take the time to make a meal that tastes delicious."
Granny, I agree, but I think some of us won't ever have to. (I'm clearly not one of them, no rich man has come by with a gravy train just yet, so I'm guessing that means I need to have other things going for me.)We know gender roles are changing, but I still don't think it would be unreasonable if my husband expected me to be domestically competent enough to say...fix dinner for the kids or mop the bathroom floor.
But if I am, say, a 25-year-old athlete with like $16 million in guaranteed money, then I can buy a chef....therefore, I don't need a woman who knows how to cook.
I can hire a nanny....so it wouldn't be a problem if my woman was high maintenance and had marginal mothering skills.
I can hire a housekeeper...so a woman wouldn't need to be clean and tidy.
I can hire a personal assistant...so a woman wouldn't have to be organized, or schedule things or plan anything or keep me on my toes and remind me of things I may forget.
I can hire a financial planner....so my woman wouldn't even have to necessarily balance her own checkbook.
I can hire a stylist...so the chick could be color blind; wouldn't matter.
I can hire a decorator...so it would be OK if the woman couldn't help pick dinner plates or couch pillows.
I can hire a personal makeup artist and hairstylist, and pay for weekly spa visits...so there'd be no excuse for any woman to look less than flawless from top to bottom on any given day.
So, with that in mind, what do I need a wife for, and what makes one gorgeous girl more desirable than another?
I thought about something else, after looking at things for a while...Money allows one to enter a whole different culture - you acquire expensive tastes and hobbies. A life of leisure is now the norm. You may suddenly enjoy things like skiing, hunting, snowboarding, eating sushi, riding motorcycles and ATVs, golfing, jet-skiing, buying nice cars, island-hopping, etc....Now, Keisha from 6 mile may not have had access to such activities in her urban upbringing...but Becky from Beverly Hills just might have done all these things routinely before seeing puberty, which means that you (black athlete/rapper/celeb X) now have more things in common with her than with the girls you used to get down with...Just a thought, but that's a whole 'nother topic.
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I really believe that it has to do with the person who wants to have a wife. It goes down to the old saying, beauty fades and is only skin deep and that it is only in the eye of the beholder. The only difference I see with those that are rich is the money, because they have the same problems that everyone has besides that. And remember as i said beauty is in the eye of the beholder because that person's breath stinks in the morning just like others, their body has to be bathed, just like others, their body and face has to be made up to have that certain look, just like others. And since they have to be maintained, it just means that the person who wants a wife has their own expectations of what beauty is and getting what they want. they are no different than a woman who wants a rich man. A woman's standard may be money and his standard may be a trophy wife. That does not mean that one person is more pretty or beautiful than the next, it just means that that particular guy may be like every other man, they want something that everyone else may envy. And believe it or not, people are not as rich as you may think because let's take for example their lifestyle. All the people that you hire have to be paid, taxes have to be paid to uncle sam, property taxes, clothes, shoes, vacations, the entourages, the personal assistants, the managers, the publicists, the choreographers, charities, family and friends, etc. I can go on and on. When Forbes or whoever lists the amount of money, they don't include all of the debits. And take my word for it, they can't pay for everything. They have great credit and the potential of making money so they get the upfront benefits. Anyway, I think I wrote too much. But just wanted to share my opinion.
Beauty.
That's it.
Rich men want beautiful women to boos their status and legitimate heirs that they can groom int heir image and pass their wealth on to.
Simple
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