If both of you got dragged into this thing under misleading pretenses, maybe being rude by leaving would be appropriate.
(Got roped into going to one of these things by a former co-worker years ago; he wouldn’t say exactly what it was about. I thought it was about the new tech company I knew they were starting; boy was I disappointed when I found out it was Amway.)
Yep, if you hadn’t been advised it was a sales meeting, it would have been perfectly acceptable for both of you to leave as soon as it became clear that was the nature of the meeting. No need even to get angry, just a pleasant ‘Sorry, we didn’t realise this was a sales pitch and we’re not interested in that’ to the friend. Shame your fiance didn’t feel assertive enough to leave.
No
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The distinctionis whether you make money by selling products or roping in new patsys.
She was someone else. Presumably someone up high on the [del]pyramid[/del] market network.
I really hate to compare her to Anna Nicole since it would be rude to speak of the deceased that way. But she had this really nasally baby talk voice kinda Betty Boopish - I wanted to slap her with a trout or something.
I take it you had time during the presentation to consider the specific type of fish!
I’m not entirely sure of the relevence of comparing this to a gyno appt. She was going to the meeting because her friend had asked her to. I was asked to go with her and it was quite obvious what she expected me to say.
She’s never asked me to go to a gyno appt. 
I think it’s quite reasonable to ask a partner to attend something with you. There was no indication that the fiance insists the OP always attends everything with her, which is what you seem to be implying.
Well, maybe my example was a bit off, but:
She “decided” you were going to a presentation? If my fiance decided I were going somewhere without discussing it with me, I would be unhappy.
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
Question;
Is Avon a pyramid scheme?
Amway? . . . QUOTE]
Avon, no. You can make money selling Avon if all you do is sell the product.
Amway, Jackmannii covered that.
Oh, and I’m really glad, after reading the thread title, that brewha only lost two hours.
Ok, “decided” may be too strong a word. She decided she was going. She wanted me to go with her. Couple do things together - sometimes it’s what one person wants, sometimes it’s what the other wants. You’ve never gone to a chick flick with a girl because it is what she wanted to see?
It was discussed and it was obvious that she wanted me to go with her. Sure I could have stayed home, but there’s a certain amount of compromise required in a relationship.
Yes, there is. But part of compromising is taking it in stride when things don’t go as planned.
I’ve been roped into those things before and I really do understand the frustration, but if I may offer some advice that I got during a rough patch in my marriage: Never turn on each other. You had a shared shitty experience. So why not brush it off, go get some coffee, and forget about it? It was a waste of time, but how much time was wasted afterwards fuming about it and expecting your fiance to do the same?
Gotta learn to roll with things a bit, IMHO.
Sure, I’ve gone places with my gf that I wouldn’t have gone otherwise. It usually goes something like this:
she: I really would like to go see Shitty Movie III. Will you come with me, or should I see if Kendra will go?
me: “sigh” Yeah, I guess so.
she: Tell you what. If you go with me, I’ll go with you to that thing you like that I do not.
me: cool.
Typically, halfway through the movie she wants to leave and I’m getting into it. 
But, my gf and I are a bad example. We share so many likes/dislikes that I had a hard time coming up with an example. Plus, she knows how much I value my free time and she respects my free time.
We don’t need to get into the debate here, but you can outperform your upline by selling products and roping in new patsys. Or by doing one or the other.
I was in Amway twice (once under Amway and once under Quixtar) and although it wasn’t for me, I met several successful people that were outperforming their upline because of their specific bonuses that were not granted to their upline due to the way they (the bonuses) were structured. Definitely not typical, but also not impossible. I think that’s how they get around the anti pyramid laws.
About 15 mins - the duration of the ride home. I’m fine, my fiance is fine, our relationship is fine. How’d the thread turn into this?
Fuck the pyramid schemers! That’s all I really wanted to hear. Maybe some stories about how other got similarly fooled so I felt better about myself. Maybe stories where people got roped in and told the presenters to fuck off when they found out what it was.
I guess I’ve been here long enough to know that a pit thread is an opening to flame the OP for some people. Eeesh.
OK on re-read of my OP it does seem like a bigger deal between my fiance and I than it really was. I guess I got caught up in the vitrol of the whole thing. Sorry for the misrepresentation.
I suspect if you hadn’t posted this paragraph, this thread would have gone down a lot more different.
{edit - aah, I see you’ve just made the same point in your post above mine}
Amway most certainly is, for 99.9% of those roped in, and that’s good enough.
And I don’t get what all the relationship breaking vitriol is on about by some posters.
Jeez, it wasn’t that bad of an experience, was it?
At least you got to learn a little about how these things work and what to look for in the future. You got to learn a little about each other and yourself along the way too. Nobody made you do anything, did they? You weren’t out anything but a little time and who knew that you’d hate it? How do you think they get new members? By having these “parties” and how do you think the person doing the presentation got involved? That’s right, by going to one of these events.
It’s very simple people, this ain’t rocket science.
At least now you can sniff something like this out in the future and decide to wave it off before you waste any more of your time.
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