Which would you rather have, love or money?

Unrequited love and plenty of money if you mean romantic love. Love from kids? I'd rather live in a hut on the hay with my kids than in some mansion with a crazy lot of money.
If I would win millions I'd give a lot to my unrequited love. Romantic love is overrated.
 
The way your question is worded, there is only one possible answer. If you said "little money" (without the "no money" part), I might answer differently, but how could anyone vote for no money? "True love" won't keep anyone alive if they are living in poverty and starving to death.

Of course I'd take the first option. The other one might be the choice of a starry-eyed teenager, but it wouldn't work in the real world.
 

Kind of made me giggle a bit. When you have enough love surrounding you, you can get through anything.
When you have more money than people you know, you are never really sure if why they come around is due
to love. Money sure can't give you that validation that you are loved they way people can.
 
If I had been asked that question at age 24, I would have answered love, but not unrequited love, since that kind is one-sided.

Asked that same question now, I would choose money.I've grown accustomed to living without love since my wife passed away but I could not live without money. Older age requires a financial cushion for security, healthcare, and quality of life.
 
Marv Malone said:
Would you rather have an unrequited love and plenty of money or little/no money and true love.
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It would be horrible to have money and be pining over someone for the rest of your days.

One-sided affection often leads to longing, heartbreak, and emotional distress, and that is no way to live.... even if you have money.

So, yeah, that would NOT be my choice.
 
I would reject unrequited love. If the other person doesn’t love me, that wouldn’t be a very good relationship.

I know of such a person that lives in that situation. He finally has decided to file for divorce, even though he is 73 years old. He said he owns other homes and the tenant just moved out of the one about 12 miles away from where his wife will be living. I know he is very wealthy and she probably is expecting a big payday, but he is very shrewd and has very good lawyers, but I told him the law is the law. It’s my guess the lawyers will recommend a settlement.
 
oldman said:
I would reject unrequited love. If the other person doesn’t love me, that wouldn’t be a very good relationship.

I know of such a person that lives in that situation. He finally has decided to file for divorce, even though he is 73 years old. He said he owns other homes and the tenant just moved out of the one about 12 miles away from where his wife will be living. I know he is very wealthy and she probably is expecting a big payday, but he is very shrewd and has very good lawyers, but I told him the law is the law. It’s my guess the lawyers will recommend a settlement.
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Oh huh what? I thought the question was be single and loaded cause if someone doesn't want you they dump you. That's because I'm not rich. I had not even thought of that possibility. Live with a gold digger. No thanks.
 
Dr.Colosso said:
Oh huh what? I thought the question was be single and loaded cause if someone doesn't want you they dump you. That's because I'm not rich. I had not even thought of that possibility. Live with a gold digger. No thanks.
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That’s what his wife was using him for, but he kept telling me that as long she is happy, she will stick around. I think he finally figured out that he was being used for way too much.
 
Corrie ten Boom had that. She was in love with a friend from her brother and they made long walks and talked about their future together and then he had to move somewhere and stopped answering letters and one day he stood in front of their door to show her his fiancee. Her brother had already warned her that his mother did not agree because she was too poor.

This girl was rich. She cried on her bed and her dad said: You can kill the love, but then a piece of you dies or you can give it to God and ask Him to turn it into His love. She did that. She said it enabled her to love the unlovable, like a Nazi in the concentration camp where she had to go, where her sister died and the guy who betrayed them. She looked quite happy to me.


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What starts out as love can fade. A woman from a rich family married the handsome lifeguard. Her family never accepted that. They lived a middle class life and she was never happy. Eventually they divorced.
 
Nathan said:
That would be masochistic, I would settle for little/no money and real love.
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But are you equating "little money" with "no money?" That's what the question does.

If it was little money and real love, I'd probably go with that. But no money means starving,being homeless or living in unspeakable conditions, probably no medical care, etc. Really? For anyone other than maybe a 15-year-old girl, I can't imagine anyone seriously opting for that.

Of course, that doesn't mean that love doesn't count, and if someone rich proposes to you, marry them anyway, even if you can't stand them. Real life is a lot more complicated than that. Human decisions aren't a simple matter of 1 or 0, unless you are an A-I entity.
 
Sunny said:
But are you equating "little money" with "no money?" That's what the question does.

If it was little money and real love, I'd probably go with that. But no money means starving,being homeless or living in unspeakable conditions, probably no medical care, etc. Really? For anyone other than maybe a 15-year-old girl, I can't imagine anyone seriously opting for that.

Of course, that doesn't mean that love doesn't count, and if someone rich proposes to you, marry them anyway, even if you can't stand them. Real life is a lot more complicated than that. Human decisions aren't a simple matter of 1 or 0, unless you are an A-I entity.
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No, that's just the original verbiage I quoted from the OP.
 
Marv Malone said:
Would you rather have an unrequited love and plenty of money or little/no money and true love.
If you could choose one. Plenty of money is more than enough but not rich.
Say you?

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Love. All I've ever wanted was love. Love is something money can't buy. Love won't pay for groceries but it meets a need that is deeper than anything else in this world.
 
Money is a path to survival. There have been so many people voicing completely fake love in this lifetime, that as a concept love really doesn't have much value.
 

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