[quote=poorgradstudent]Tangental, I’ve read that the whole stereotype of “rich, successful guy marrying his hot young secretary” is basically a dead trend. Successful men for the most part want to marry successful women. It’s actually part of why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor in this country, as most people tend to marry a partner from their same general income bracket.[/quote]
coming home from walking the dog on the beach this morning I listened to an NPR story about how rare the trophy wife really is.
Yes there are beautiful women married to rich men. – But if you dig deeper, those beautiful women are often wealthy in their own right. Outside of the blatent examples like Anna Nicole Smith, it’s really much less common that you’d think – to the point of being rare.
The radio piece had a lot of discussion with a sociologist about this – she basically restated the idea in the other thread – people marry at their own level. She pointed out that rich people are more comfortable around other rich people. Beautiful people tend to be more comfortable with other beautiful people. So the trophy wife stereotype has a rich guy marrying someone poor – which is unusual, and a beautiful woman marrying someone not attractive – which is also unusual… so that combo really makes it rare.
