Maybe she’s a gold digger but also a good match for my son. 
Attempting to break up a couple, whatever you think of the partner, is not going to come to a good end. And it’s probably not going to work.
As DrDeth said, you could revamp the will to make it difficult for the wife to basically just run off with his money. But, if doing that, don’t tell them about it. Handing the potential wife a major insult isn’t likely to come to a good end, either; at least, if you want to stay on speaking terms with the son.
This is also a possibility (as is the possibility that you’re wrong and she isn’t.)
And if your son actually would quit someone he at least claims to love in order to get your money, then your son is a gold digger.
I would do nothing, my son has the right to commit his mistakes, why should I care if he loses money after I’m dead? it’s not realistic to expect her to beggar him, just cost him a lot of what, by that point, will be his own money, so…
Yes, the idea that rich people own their adult children and can manipulate them with their money has always felt offensive to me.
Sadly, apparently extremely common. There are many posts on Reddit about kids of uber-rich parents who walk on eggshells around their parents, waiting for their parents to die, but knowing pissing them off in any way could reduce or eliminate their inheritance.
Apparently the 19-year old teen who went on that ill-fated Titanic submarine didn’t want to go, but his father being a billionaire and all, wanted him to go - and the teen had probably spent his entire life being unable to say no to things due to potential financial retaliation.
Maybe “neutral cause” was the wrong phrasing, but it was intended to mean a cause that does not fit into the other categories. IMO, an environmental cause would not be a political cause, in the context of the poll.
I never pissed off my father (that I know of) but he inherited millions from his father that he had never expected, and gave almost all of it to a university before he died. He didn’t think it was good for children (even older adult children) to inherit large sums of money. Maybe it’s different for the super-rich, but I never expected an inheritance and would never have changed the way I wanted to live to curry favor with my parents to prevent being disinherited.
I don’t generally have an issue with clowns, though I don’t care for them, either.
Conceptually, I don’t have an issue with ventriloquism dummies, either, but there’s a particular style of face on them which seems to be the standard – maybe due to Charlie McCarthy being the ur-dummy – with large eyes, exaggerated red cheeks and noses, and big red lips, and I do find that style to be creepy. (FWIW, I used to enjoy Geoff Dunham’s act; his dummies don’t follow that style.)
I had a ventriloquist’s doll as a kid, I was maybe 10, 12 years old. One day I left it at my best friend’s house, and some hours later got a phone call from him and his older brother chanting in unison, “The doll is dead, the doll is dead, and now we’re going to chop off its head.”
When I headed over to visit them, I found the doll propped on a box outside my house, its head removed, ketchup squeezed out on it.
Traumatizing, hey? I’m still friends with both of them though.
Not really creeped out by any of it. But I gave the edge to the dummies.
Good point.
My Doc put me on Ozempic for a couple months. I only lost like 5#, and had some side effects.So, we agreed to end it. Not to mention, even with insurance it was $100 per month.
I saw a nutritionist, mostly because my PCP would like me to lose weight. She, unhelpfully (at least from his perspective) said that she thought my diet was pretty good, and that I don’t have any compelling medical reason to lose weight, hovering right below “obese”. She also said that she doesn’t think I’m a good candidate for ozempic-type drugs (which I hadn’t been looking for.) I think she’s right, because it mostly seems to help people who have trouble not thinking about eating, and who are troubled by “food noise”. That’s not me. I have a lot of friends on the drugs, though, and it seems to help them both lose excess weight and maintain healthy blood sugar levels.
Not really creeped out by any of it; but I gave the edge to the nutcrackers, because I wasn’t thinking of the ones with, say, somebody swinging an ax; I was thinking of the ones where the nut’s cracked between somebody’s thighs.
I don’t want to take Ozempic or any of its kin because I don’t want to have to deal with the side effects. The people insisting that you ought to be thin because it would make you healthy don’t seem to mind in the least making you sick if it might make you thin.
Fwiw, my friends who are taking it don’t complain about it making them sick. Including a close friend who shares a lot of medical info with me. He’s a diabetic, and mostly he’s really happy with how well it’s controlling his blood sugar.
I think side effects vary a lot from person to person.
My blood sugar’s currently under quite good control with Xigduo. Not going to break what’s working. If it quits working, will investigate further.
Both/and: Ozempic worked for about 6 months, then I gained weight and my A1c shot up. I switched to Mounjaro, which is thus far helpful for my A1c. Both make me quite nauseated and very sensitive to oily smells (enough so that I can’t go to a pub with meat- or fish-cooking odors). I’ve never been troubled by “food noise” or cravings, nor have I over- or under-eaten. I just have f***ing diabetes (at least 3 grandparents had diabetes or diabetic spectrum issues).
Yeah, that’s got a lot to do with it.
My father developed diabetes in his 40’s. I didn’t until my late 60’s. My skinny sister’s got it also, though I think she may be just under the line without medication.
Squirrels are the nachos of the natural world.
Elton and Billy are similar in that I like their early stuff and not so much their later stuff. Billy has a big edge over Elton. “The Stranger” was the second album I bought with my allowance. Then I discovered “ Turnstiles” which is my favorite album of his. I then got “Piano Man.” “Glass Houses” was really good but not as good as the other ones. I never owned an Elton John record but I listened to ones my siblings had.
I wonder how many squirrels die of starvation.