While this article may be about extreme cases of shallow materialistic people, I suspect that many not so shallow people will have real problems adjusting to their financial situation.
I know that I’m not alone when I tell you that over the last several years my wife has wanted us to buy a house, but due to my stubbornness we haven’t. It wasn’t always easy, when people would tell my wife what fools we were for not buying. While that seems to have subsided a good bit now, I can only imagine the friction that we’d be enduring now if I had given in and bought, only to watch our investment collapse.
I suspect that many of the people who did buy are now finding that finances can be a real sore point for couples. I’m sure in many cases, one of the couple wanted to buy real bad and the other thought it might not be the best. And even when both wanted to buy, seeing you extravagant lifestyle end because you can’t go on borrowing and spending is going to be tough, regardless of how wealthy or how middle class you are.
Now I know some of you HB’s (Heartless Bastards) are going to say, “XBox I don’t feel one bit sorry for these folks. They made their beds and they can sleep in ’em.” And while I understand your feelings, I still feel sorry for the mess that a lot of people have gotten themselves into. (Not sorry enough to want to bail them out mind you!)
But most importantly, I think of how I refused to go along with my wife’s house buying dreams in the years of serious bubbling, and how she stuck with me even though I frustrated the heck out of her. (To put it mildly!) And then I read about these people, and I realize how good I have it, and why of all the women I ever met, she’s the one I married.
