re: I loved my life as a trophy wife until I realized what I was giving up....

Grabbed this pic from your link (she was never, ever hot), but look at the poor sap:

Buzz, your girl friend! WOOF!

Did you edit that? Never mind, I see the "woofmaker" watermark.

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That woman is truly awful.

She used that man for his money, then divorced him when he was old, and took his money.

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I certainly wouldn’t want to be friends with her, but the “taking advantage” train seems to be traveling both ways in this story.

By her own admission, she was a 20 year old train wreck. The only conceivable reason he would have for marrying her is that he wanted someone he could control and influence. From the article:

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It was easy to give in to what my husband wanted. He was kind and reasonable; he told me that his first wife had made so many non-negotiable demands, and then she'd left him anyway. He'd been badly hurt, and he'd grown from it and learned how to assert his needs. Anyway, the things he wanted? They all seemed like good ideas. Didn't they?

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He essentially dictated her life to her in exchange for material comfort. Of course, she agreed to it, but she did so as a broke 20 yo in therapy with a crap job. I suspect that this was probably a plus in his book because she’d be easier to manipulate.

Again, not excusing her. She was an awful wife and seems like a fairly crappy person, but the ex here has issues of his own.

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What exactly in your 30’s do you do that a 47 year old can’t do?

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Have babies

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Is that a pentagram around her neck? 

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Star of david?

If you're a jew, she's probably as good as it gets.

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o, I actually read some of the article. Her life sucks because she decides to be a writer. Okay, cool. She marries this guy for stability and money, realizes one day that she doesn’t love him and decides to divorce, and I have no doubt she got half his shite. Then she decides to go back to “freelance writing.” Sounds like another good for nothing gold digger. Am I supposed to congragulate her or feel sympathy? Sounds like a lose who wasted years of her life for no reason other than to be a sponge.

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She is a complete self centered bitch. Sounds like this dude treated her right and did all the right things. She cheats on him and blames him for boring her because they don't share interests. She isn't a trophy wife, she is just some dumb chick that fricked a decent guy over.

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If you're a jew, she's probably as good as it gets.

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You’re buying into her victim story even though she couldn’t even bring herself to say anything really negative about him.

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Not saying she’s a victim at all. I said she was an awful wife. I’m saying I’m not buying that he was completely blameless here. He clearly was telling her what to do, where to work and what type of work to do and who to socialize with.

What’s more believable? “He was a good dude who married a meh-looking, directionless rat chick 17 years younger than him with emotional issues to boot just out of the kindness of his heart” OR “his ex-wife steamrolled him so he wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again?”

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Not saying she’s a victim at all. I said she was an awful wife. I’m saying I’m not buying that he was completely blameless here. He clearly was telling her what to do, where to work and what type of work to do and who to socialize with. What’s more believable? “He was a good dude who married a meh-looking, directionless rat chick 17 years younger than him with emotional issues to boot just out of the kindness of his heart” OR “his ex-wife steamrolled him so he wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again

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If I’m footing the bill on everything she does while she blows money on dumb shite, she better god damn well do what I say. She was a “trophy wife.” She wasn’t even a home maker. That doesn’t give you a lot of authority in a relationship.

Agree

What millionaire drives an Audi?