Rich and single vs. relationship and broke?

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relationship and broke for me.
i do have a desire to connect to people, and i will choose mental over physical wealth if i need to

Aliko Dangote, richest African is.
Jan Koum, IT billionaire also so as his business partner Brian Acton.
Alexander Lebedev, Michail Prokhorov, Michail Friedman, Alisher Usmanov - these russian billionaires are single.

And many others in fact, from rich people I found in wikipedia almost half never were married or had long relations.

I'd def pick rich and single. Money equals higher security, for me and my family.

I'm asexual and as good as aromantic.

Easy peasy.

I don't see how the two are related.

Also, "rich" is relative. Once you're rich, you can more easily stay rich so I don't see how getting a relationship would make a rich person poor (unless you spend all your money on the relationship).

I never had a lot of money & money has never been a motivating factor for me. I have been pretty lonely when I was single so I'd defiantly pick relationship & broke.

I guess it's sort of similar to the "rich and short or poor and tall" type of questions asked about men on other forums.

Ugh...I don't know...

If I'd never met my wife, I'd definitely go with rich and single. Being married, though, it doesn't much matter. She takes good care of us so it's not like I really miss the money.

Back in the good old days when I was single and had a good job, it was a lot of responsibility and pressure, not to mention playing by everyone else's rules and not my own. So, yeah, I miss being in the position to accomplish a lot of good things. I don't miss being as miserable as I was.

If you're in a rock-solid relationship, you're not going to mind being broke. But you ARE going to be worried night and day whether you're doing the right thing and if you can be doing better to give your family all the opportunities they deserve. We live in a trailer, only use one vehicle, spend less than $300 a month on groceries, only go out to eat once a month, and buy flour, rice, and oats in bulk so we never have to worry about going hungry. That allows us to send our kids to a GOOD private school. I keep the 2yo so we can cut babysitting and daycare. Aside from extremely rare medical bills and student loans, we are debt-free.

We know people who have a lot more money than we do and they're constantly at the doorstep of bankruptcy.

So if you are single and rich or in a relationship and rich or not, it's entirely up to you how that enhances or detracts from your life.

Wisdom bla bla ....names...yeah so what?? Are you pretending that it never occurred to you that it's their choice to be so?


Googled Alexander Lebedev and found this:
http://thecitizensoffashion.com/2013/08 ... lla-story/


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and: the Jan Koum (whatsapp's creator no?) did have a gf.


Being voluntary single is not the same thing.

Are you telling me that no woman wants to marry those (or even attracted to, because such success bring attraction)? geez, get real.

Rich and single or in a relationship and broke?
I'm going to sound shallow, hell with it!! !
I'll pick being Rich and single, because when you are rich you don't stay single for long and you have the luxury of picking up who you want for a relationship, and in the mean time while you look for a relationship you can always hire an escort, even if it's all pretend.
Being in a relationship and broke will simply not work. Lots of couples, even those madly in love very often split up when money issues arrive, and it's usually on the woman's end. And then when that happens you end up being broke and singe, and then good luck into getting into another relation, no women will ever go with a man who is broke, women will always look for some sort of security in a man and that security is money, not necessary a millionaire but some money is important for them.
Based on my own experience and due to the career I've chose to pursue, I've been broke a few times in the past when I was a little younger and I can guarantee it's harder to get a date when you have no money unless you lie. And when I'm not broke and have a little money (or doing much better like today) it suddenly is much easier to end up on a date and getting into a relation and women are much more willing to it also.
Sorry for being politically incorrect on this one...

Id prefer rich and single because when your rich you can get in a relationshiop anytime you want because most women prefer a man whos financially stable and at the same time you are free with nobody nagging at you telling you what to do and can get as many casual relationships on a whim.

Probably rich and single. I just don't see myself ever getting married, having kids, etc...

Plus I've never been in a relationship before. It would probably be better for me so I could have the freedom to do whatever I want with no commitments.

Zeromancer won't change his/her mind in a few years. I'm 5 years older than they are, and feel that rich and single is a much better choice.

Why would you be in love and poor? Sure you'd have someone by your side, but you'd be sleeping in your car, a shelter, or some other unsavory place. Love can't save you from things that money can. I know this for a fact. Money is the single most important thing in the world besides your own health and safety.

2nd one.. im not interested in big money anyway.
i wouldn't know what to do with it.

I don't even want to be rich just a enough money to do what I want without worrying about other people or society.

There's only one out of the four things that would cause actual difficulties with survival within a society - being broke. It makes sense to choose the option that doesn't have that in it.

A lot of people seem to be responding as though the options are "Rich and single to begin with but that could change" and "relationship and poor". I was taking it as a hypothetical that you are rich and single forever, or relationship and BROKE (i.e. no money) forever. If it's meant another way I may revise my answer

If I HAD to choose between those.. rich and single.