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Women who like a man who has "financial security"

  • 04-10-2011 11:01PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 569 ✭✭✭


    We've all heard it before :pac:
    "i'm looking for a man with financial security" from certain women.

    Am I the only one who finds this such a joke? :p
    Like one could maybe understand it coming from a woman who is a doctor, solicitor etc. She wants to date a bloke similar to her level of success.

    But you see more and more women saying it. Women who only work in the likes of Tesco :pac:
    Lets dissect it more. A woman wouldnt date a certain man because he isnt loaded. Like that's the special ingredient to make a relationship work.
    As long as he has money it doesnt matter if he is selfish, a liar, insensitive, a jerk etc. :pac:

    So.. am i alone in thinking this is the mentality of a gold-digger? (in one form or another?)

    Is it just a nicer expression for gold diggers? 129 votes

    Yes.
    0% 0 votes
    No.
    100% 129 votes


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    Nothing wrong with that if they can, why not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭AnamGlas




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Women like men with big bank accounts.

    Men like women with big tits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    I dislike trolls more than thank whores.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭tempura


    No one is financially secure these days, my advice would be to drop the numbers thinking and just date for love and fun:)

    If it gets serious you can work things out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Nothing wrong with working in Tesco :)

    Also maybe they mean free of debt instead of being loaded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Gold diggers exist in both genders.

    Thing is most people find successful people attractive and a successful person is likely to be well off...so are we supposed to apologise for being attracted to success?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    Will security guard at a bank do?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    I hear woman who want to settle down say that (usually mid 30s) and what they mean by "financial security" is someone who has a stable job they enjoy.

    I would like a bit of stability!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    Elba101 wrote: »
    I hear woman who want to settle down say that (usually mid 30s) and what they mean by "financial security" is someone who has a stable job they enjoy.

    I would like a bit of stability!

    Hello ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭rebel10


    You know what, I genuinely couldn't care less what the person does for a living as long as it is honourable! ;) I was talking to a guy one night, told me he was a respiratory doctor, he was great for a chat but was definitely not attracted to him. One of my friends was asking about him after he had left, I was telling her and told her what he did for a living and I saw a change in her expression straight away. She could not believe I wasn't interested in the fact that he had a good job. I just find the whole thing bizarre. What do you do with him for the time you actually have to be around him?!:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Some gold-digger broke the 100% poll run there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Who doesn't want a financially secure partner?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 569 ✭✭✭CoolHat


    Elba101 wrote: »
    I hear woman who want to settle down say that (usually mid 30s) and what they mean by "financial security" is someone who has a stable job they enjoy.

    I would like a bit of stability!

    I know what you mean...
    But i've seen other words used. "has to be successful" is another fav.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Darlughda


    Will security guard at a bank do?

    No.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    Darlughda wrote: »
    No.

    German Government Bond?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Ah if it's part of the whole package that a women finds desirable then what's the problem? Lot's of women want kids and a family and all that jazz and being financially secure is (or should be) a big part of that.

    If it's only the 'financial security' they find desirable though then yeah, they are gold digging skanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    CoolHat wrote: »
    Is it just a nicer expression for gold diggers Hookers ?

    FYP !

    Answer: Nope Hookers have the decency to be honest and upfront about what they do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    Is it also fair to say women are attracted to strength, financial security can give someone a lot of respect and strength. Woman are attracted to men who other men respect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭mawk


    Who doesn't want a financially secure partner?

    Thats boring and reasonable.

    rabble rabble


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I'm hungry. Be a dear and club us a bison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    bronte wrote: »
    Gold diggers exist in both genders.

    Thing is most people find successful people attractive and a successful person is likely to be well off...so are we supposed to apologise for being attracted to success?

    My attraction to women has nothing to do with how 'successful' they are :confused:

    I seriously doubt any of the guys I know would turn as a good looking girl passes by and think "hmmm , I wonder how successful she is"... :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Sisko wrote: »
    My attraction to women has nothing to do with how 'successful' they are :confused:

    I seriously doubt any of the guys I know would turn as a good looking girl passes by and think "hmmm , I wonder how successful she is"... :confused:
    Okay....let me put it this way....you meet an attractive girl on a night out and you get to know her...it turns out she's completely unmotivated in life and her work and complains constantly about her situation but does absolutely nothing to change it.
    Does your attraction to her lessen?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    People who are driven, who are full of goals and plans and energy, are interesting. Members of the opposite sex full of goals and plans and energy are sexy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 Berberie


    Ummm am I being weird, but I've always supported myself. I'm the one who pays the bills and buys everything for the little one....... there's a sense of pride in it!

    Oh my, what have I been doing all these years *note to self* raid his wallet when he comes in from the pub :D, *2nd note to self* no point raiding after the fact :rolleyes: (fact = pub)! Doh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    bronte wrote: »
    Okay....let me put it this way....you meet an attractive girl on a night out and you get to know her...it turns out she's completely unmotivated in life and her work and complains constantly about her situation but does absolutely nothing to change it.
    Does your attraction to her lessen?

    How big are her tits?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    bronte wrote: »
    Okay....let me put it this way....you meet an attractive girl on a night out and you get to know her...it turns out she's completely unmotivated in life and her work and complains constantly about her situation but does absolutely nothing to change it.
    Does your attraction to her lessen?

    Girl meets ugly man with low IQ.

    Does she have some interest in him when she finds out he has tons of bread in the bank?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Yeah I can really see all the middle class chaps queueing up to date hot dole scrounger birds...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    You seem to believe 'financial security' is wimmin's secret code for 'a doctor I can bring home to Mammy'. Perhaps these women simply mean 'a guy who can go out for the night without getting locked and maybe go halves on a cheap sun holiday without running up an overdraft'.
    But what do I know?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Who doesn't want a financially secure partner?

    Silvio Berlusconi, perhaps?


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