This is to the deplorable bitch who dumped my brother because he didn’t make enough money. You were with him for seven years. You seemed perfectly happy with him and his 25K job until you got your university degree and obtained a career making over twice as much as him. For the last year of your relationship, you kept urging him to go out west for a few months and come back with a bunch of dough. The last thing he wanted to do was go out there because he loves the Maritimes. All of his friends and family are here and he was happy enough with his current job. He’s a sweet guy but obviously you didn’t appreciate him. You dumped his ass and found a man as money-hungry as you, who apparently DID go out west for 5 months and came back with 50K. Were you so embarrassed to be with a guy who made less money than you? Seems like it!
Seven years, my brother keeps saying, I guess it meant nothing to her.
I hope you enjoy your wonderful life with this douchey new lover, counting your money and your cars and your numerous pricey trips all around the world. My brother will find a real woman who knows the things that are really important in life and that money isn’t one of them! —Sis Who’s There For Her Brother
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.
Is your bro a garbage man?
I’m sure there’s more to it than that, something your brother will never tell you or anyone else. I have dumped someone before because they were happy with always complaining about bills, never having money for doing ANYTHING or even buy condoms FFS, never being able to ever go to a restaurant, etc, etc. But they were completely content with this and never made any effort to get a better job or education. I can’t stand people who settle for mediocrity, never strive for anything, don’t have a single aspiration, and I will always leave them behind.
Some people are happier working at a $25k job than some making those big salaries – with big salaries usually come big responsibilities and, if this broad is as money-grubbing as you say, it won’t take long for her to learn money doesn’t solve everything. I’ve seen it on both sides, as a trophy wife to a guy who made money his Gawd and a wife of a guy who could have made twice his salary if we had moved out West. That didn’t matter squat to either of us because family and friends were way more important in our value system. We may not be rich but we have all the things that really matter – love and respect for one another. Your bro dodged a guided missle – one day he’ll find someone who’ll appreciate a good heart, not a stuffed wallet.
Maybe it’s not that she was embarrassed by his low wage job- maybe it just hindered her new quality of life and thus, new life goals (i.e., buying a house, cars, trips, etc). I wouldn’t jump to call her a bitch- people change and grow and he obviously wasn’t willing to grow with her (perfectly acceptable, but relationship ending).
stuff and things are useless, except for comfy shoes
A happy, content person making 25,000 per year is a much better person than an asshole who thinks they’re better than someone else because they make 200,000. Life isn’t about money, it only has value because a bunch of rich assholes say it does.
The relationship wasn’t meant to last. She’s a materialist and he isn’t. Hopefully he can find somebody more his speed.
that was the problem o.p., he was getting paid in fucking letters, not dollars. i would go too, if someone only worked for the alphabet letters. here ‘s some for you, f.u.c.k. o.f.f.
Side note as long as everyone in the maritimes keep accepting the low paying jobs they’ll never start to pay proper wages. One rogue candidate goes in and demands a proper salary in line with the rest of the country (and don’t even start with the cost of living bullshit because its a myth) and the hiring company just tells them to walk because they know that in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and NB there is some schmo who will take any job for any salary. Just stop accepting poverty level pay – they’ll realize that they can’t get anyone to work for them anymore and they will adjust accordingly. It’s not rocket surgery.
She wanted him out west so she could screw other guys most likely. She’s making money what’s the problem.