# How much should income matter in a relationship.  Poll to happen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-should-income-matter-in-a-relationship-poll-to-happen/577763>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 9, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-should-income-matter-in-a-relationship-poll-to-happen/577763 "2011-04-09T06:03:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-should-income-matter-in-a-relationship-poll-to-happen/577763/61 "2011-04-17T05:37:28Z")

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If you don’t want him can I have him? I’ll do the cooking, cleaning, child rearing(we’ll have to adopt) and monkey sexing.

Do you think he’d be okay with the fact that I’m older than him and male?

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-should-income-matter-in-a-relationship-poll-to-happen/577763/62 "2011-04-17T23:00:42Z")

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> [@palacheck](#):
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> If you don’t want him can I have him? I’ll do the cooking, cleaning, child rearing(we’ll have to adopt) and monkey sexing.

When I first got divorced, I ended up with my two kids. (It wasn’t my idea; I’d have paid my ex to keep them, but she didn’t want to play mama anymore.) Making good enough money to do it, I offered a girl (18), who needed someplace to live, the job of nanny. She’d get paid a decent salary, free room and board, all for the sole basis of being a responsible adult for them when I wasn’t there, to see that they were fed and taken care of. She refused as she was CERTAIN that I was just trying to buy a live-in hooker.

I don’t bang my employees. Maybe anything else that holds still long enough, but never employees. Apparently she wasn’t willing to believe that.

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