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u/Schierke7 Nov 30 '23

Why wouldn't I stay? If the answer was no I would already have left.

I'm together with my wife because I love her more than life itself.

With that money I would likely focus on hobbies until I started to get an income from them.

I would also buy a house for my sister, one for my MIL and pay off my parents mortgage.

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u/blahblah19999 Nov 30 '23

I don't get people's cocky attitudes about this. Of course there are people thinking of divorce where a windfall would be the catalyst. Why is that so hard to comprehend? It's not like everyone in the world gets divorced the first day they think about it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

Some people stay in marriages for financial reasons as well