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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I must admit, I don't actually know any of these shallow selfish money grabbers.....they're just not the kind of people I'd be friends with. In a Pickle is spot on....you can't generalise based on a few idiots.
We got engaged a few years ago and we spent the equivalent of one months salary. Why the h3ll should any good partnership start with the guy spending a fortune on a piece of jewellery? I just don't get that whole out-dated thing. Yes, we all like to be spoiled occasionally, but that cuts both ways. We see ourselves as equals in this relationship, and always have, so I just can't relate to these pathetic specimens who take their partners (male or female) for a ride, be it financially or otherwise. That said, if you act like a doormat, you'll get stepped on!!!
My husband spent only a small fraction of his salary on my wedding and engagement rings, as he bought them overseas (i.e. not in UK) I was quite happy with that.
Personally I think its better to spend on a house, car or something that makes your life more comfortable than spend on jewellery. Gifts are fine, but I wouldn't expect anybody to spend their whole months salary on me.
I wouldn't necessarily say that all women are greedy and selfish, although I know a few who (are single!) believe that men should spend money on them and buy them gifts constantly.
Mostly I have found that a lot of women are materialistic (beyond their means), wanting their boyfreineds to buy things that they just can't afford (keeping up with the Jones') but then when I hear about my mates buying X-boxes and games that cost �40 plus, and the newest gadgets on the market all the time I just wonder whether any of us are all that different.
I have a nice house and a very nice car, does that make mne materialistic?....maybe.
dirtyharriet firstly I would like to say, I did not say most women were greedy and selfish, I said some if not most, I said this for the reason that most of the women I know or have encountered are greedy and selfish, there are also women on here or partners of these women that have shown that they are this way, so it would not surprise me if most women were like that.
Maybe I do have too much time on my hands to make judgemental comments on people I haven't met, but everybody judges people they haven't met at sometime or another, and the women who give me reason to make this judgement, give me and others I know who use this site, reason to. they give the impression that they are greedy/selfish and i expect other people think they are too, its just that I choose to air my views while others don't.
I don't think I'm better than anyone, but these "poor women" certainly aren't that.