By SARA K.
SMITH
Updated 4:51 AM PST, Tue, Jan 13, 2009
Our new national recession ushered out all sorts of things we'll
actually miss: easy credit, nice houses, jobs of some sort, maybe
some retirement savings. But one thing nobody will miss is a
particular breed of shallow, rapacious quasi-human who only stayed
married while there were buckets of money involved.
Witness this charming woman quoted in the New
York Times over the weekend -- a woman who at
least had the good sense to maintain her anonymity:
One mother in TriBeCa, who is married, at
least for now, to a Wall Street executive, put it
rather bluntly: “My job was to run the household and the children’s
lives,” she said. “His job is to provide us with a nice lifestyle.”
But his bonus has disappeared, and his annual pay has dropped to
$150,000 from $800,000 a year. “Let me just say this,” she said,
“I’m still doing my job.”
Of course, the husbands are to blame here as well. If the health
of your marriage is predicated on your being able to take home a
million a year in perpetuity, you should not be surprised if and
when your
money runs out and your concubine walks. Take for
example this poor sap mentioned in the Times
Online:
One New York divorce lawyer said one client was worried that his
wife would leave him if she found out that his net worth had fallen
from $20 million (£10 million) to $8 million after he suffered huge
losses on property and other investments. To keep his wife he was
trying to mask his declining fortune by borrowing to pay for her
clothes and holidays.
Sara K. Smith writes for
Wonkette, and she still
believes in love.
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