Mills and Boon

3/17/2008 03:51:00 pm / The truth was spoken by Rich /


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In light of Heather Mills' gargantuan divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, let me offer up this boon of financial advice; I won't amgry up my blood by focusing on why someone deserves £25m just for being married to someone rich, but I hope this serves as a lesson to all gentlemen who are considering getting hitched that a prenuptial-agreement is a necessity.

Not just the super rich either. In fact it's more important for someone earning an average wage to get one of these agreements than someone who makes cazillions a year. If you make £30m and your wife wants £15m, you can cope, you're not broke, you're still financial secure forever, but if you make £30,000 a year and your wife wants £15,000 you're gonna have to move back in with your parents.

Surely it's just far easier and cheaper not to get married in the first place? Don't let a woman guilt you into thinking a pre-nup. is unromantic because it turns your wonderful relationship into a business contract. A marriage is a business contract. You wouldn't enter into a business contract without having a contingency plan should the people you're dealing with no quite be the people you thought they were and it all go tits up.

I've waffled on about this before plenty of times, but it seems people are still not listening to me. Marriage is not romantic and it's not big or clever. Just live together until the tedium of it all becomes so soul destroying you have to go your separate ways and then start all over again with someone else who you've convinced yourself will really be your soul mate this time.

If you don't get married you can make this mistake as many times as you like and all it will cost is your self respect and the respect your friends and family have for you. If you marry each time you've convinced yourself she is the one however it'll cost you something even more valuable, money. And no, I haven't got that the wrong way round.

I think you know what I'm trying to say.

1 comments:

Comment by Unknown on 17 March 2008 at 20:59

I see what you mean about the woman from the BT adverts

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