[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=spdrun]Well, take housing advice from someone like that if you don’t want to spend the next 20 years with a ball and chain around your leg :D[/quote]
also, my wife and kids were net moneymakers for me. She makes money. The kids make me get up and work every day. I never wouldve bought a giant mansion without my crazy wife. i probably wouldnt have even gotten a 401k. i wouldnt have gone to law school. i certainly never wouldve kept working. [/quote]
Exactly! Scaredy gets it!
I’ve often told my wife that had I not met her, I would have moseyed through life without accomplishing much. I didn’t really care…if I was having fun, that was all I needed. Maybe I’d finish my degree, maybe I wouldn’t.
Maybe I’d work hard, maybe I’d take some time off.
But suddenly, when I had a gf then wife then kids, I had someone that made me strive to be better and more successful.
One of my favorite movie lines of all time is when Jack Nicholson said “You make me want to be a better man” in “As Good As It Gets”. He summarized in that one line exactly what I knew to be true in my own life.
So it’s exactly as scaredy said…those balls and chains actually made me quite a bit of money…way more than they cost me.
And when I look back at the males in my family tree, I can almost see the moment their life took off…the moment they met their wife. I can’t go back and reconstruct whether my theory is true for all of them, but I suspect it is…
