i wont make this easy. I mean, spose you werent in love with the person but you did like them enuff and they were filthy rich. Would u marry them and even more specifically, would u marry them instead of someone else who u felt more love for?
How I would reply usually-no
How I would reply honestly-yes
For me, happiness is not having to work, and being able to relax and have what I want available. I think most people can agree, so…yes, yes I certainly would.
Had that option once. I said no because I did like him, it would not have been fair at all to him to be stuck with a woman that only liked him. It would not have been fair to me to be stuck with a guy that I only like. Money does not carry you through the hard parts of marriage, only love does that.
well unless youre only trying to get through to the divorce settlement.
Rich guys have prenups with lawyer ridden clauses. I enjoy life to much to saddle myself with years of unhappiness just to get money. Life is way too short. My husband and I will be celebrating our 24th anniversary in a few days. We have been together for 25 yrs. and though we are broke, we have the best of times because we love each other and are still the best of friends. I would not trade our life together and its future for a settlement portion of a trillion dollars. Maybe a portion of a Quadrillion 
No, i would not ever marry for money - i could not live with myself. Or rather I couldn’t live with someone I didnt really love. IF i fell for someone who had lots of money - then great, but its not what i look for in a partner - ever. People make me far happier than material things - as long as i have a roof over my head and food in my belly adn am surrounded by those i love and who love me - i couldn’t want for more.
If it was a guy I liked, then yes!
If I didn’t like him, no way!
I have seen what marriage to a person that you only like, can do. You hide, you sneak, you lie, you become depressed , bored, angry, resentful, because you are trying to fulfill a need , desire, a want, a void that you can’t get from a friend, it will eventually damage who you are. Thats not fair to either of you. That sort of marriage ends up painfully nasty most of the time.
yes, just to finance my education( up to PhD level)
My friend advised me not to date guys under 70 as they were waaaaaaaaay too mobile, and to go for a wealthy man that, preferably, couldn’t walk: as he wouldn’t be able to cheat on me due to being near death 
I’m only 38, and plus, I look way younger than my years: I would rather be a spinster than marry such a man like she suggested - so, marrying some-one I actually liked wouldn’t be bad at all: to the many options out there…
What ! You don’t aprove of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s tactics! Ahh shucks, I am sure there is some wealthy senile bedwetting 80 yr old man that smells like deathwarmed over out there just waiting to give you all he has just for a few umm, thrills? Now the poor guy has to die without copping a few feels…Soooo cruel… 
Why marry? Why complicate things?
Here’s what I want to know. Why do you need to buy a wife? If you are buying a wife for yourself you can pretty much bet that she will not love you for who you are (unless you have already fused yourself with your money into one, in your head - you consider yourself a walking dollar sign), but for your money – this is something that you’ll always have to remember, and this is something that will keep you awake at night. So you know that this woman is a gold digger, all she sees is dollar signs everywhere. So in a sense, you are just business partners. She gets your money, and you get….now what exactly do you want from a woman who does not want you but your money?.. 
Is it access to sex? Is it self-esteem/social status?..Is it a child?..Is it a greencard?
In any case, it’s a business deal. The answer to your question would be that if a woman’s need for money is much greater than a man’s need for a wife, then she will marry him(might need to figure in woman’s pride, here, as well). Otherwise, no.
This reminded me of a joke: 
The train was travelling along when a beautiful young woman entered the compartment which was deserted except for a businessman reading his paper.
The man peered over his paper and asked “Would you let me fuck you for a dollar?”
“Certainly not!” exclaimed the young woman, and the businessman returned to his paper.
A short while later he looked across again and said “Would you let me fuck you for a million dollars?”
After a brief pause, the woman replied “yes, I suppose I would.” Again the man returned to his newspaper.
A few minutes later the man asked “Would you let me fuck you for five dollars?”
“Certainly not!” replied the young woman, getting angry now “What kind of girl do you take me for?”
“We’ve already established that” replied the man, “We’re just haggling over the price!”
why is it that people marry then anyway?
Pandora, Everytime I read or hear that joke it still gives me a chuckle. Most folks don’t realize how they have established themselves in another person’s view.
I don’t see anything wrong with marriage as a way of wanting to show your love to your partner, but not anything to do with showing it to others. it should be between the couple. But I don’t see how its any less showing your love than moving in together. Why does the piece of paper make any difference? My mum thinks it does and doesn’t think that a couple who aren’t married are as committed as ones who are. I always point out that these days divorce is so easy that it really doesn’t make any difference.
I like the idea of a wedding - merely for the benefit of dressing up and having a big knees up!! But not for anything else - and well, one can have a party if one wants without exchanging business deals right?
I think Pandora is right- it was (and still is in some cases) a matter of buying a wife, the dowry etc. And it amazes me how many women get ‘given away’ still, not actually thinking about what it means, what it represents. I for one would not want to be given away - even though it might upset my folks, they know by now that i’m not ‘the norm’ and won’t be having any traditional wedding, albeit one at all!
I have two sets of friends i’ve known a long time who aren’t married - both seem very committed and both don’t have kids. The former i know couldn’t (so they have tons of animals instead), and the latter i think chose not to (although i’m not sure). The ones who couldn’t have kids didnt marry and i’ve never met a more committed couple. Its strange how it seems to be needed by some people to have that signed piece of paper saying that they are officially a couple.
So many friends of mine move in with boyfriends and i point out that its the same as marriage, but they don’t think it is - until they find that its not working out and its bloody difficult to get out of the situation. I’ve never lived wiht a boyfriend - i wouldn’t unless i was very sure it was going to last a fair length of time. I realise that its impossible to ‘know’ whether something is going to last - but certainly some relationships are easier to see that than others.
Good joke btw…