you know after reading all this I realize that is why I had problems with my last wife. Thing is, she was from a very poor family, while I was from an average middle-class family. Over the years, I ran into a couple of bosses who did not like me and would not let me advance in the workplace ( only 5'6" tall, and good looking, but a nice guy is not a sucessful combo in a factory). While my wife on the other hand is good looking and nice, but her female boss people at work convinced her she could do better than me. Eventually it happened. While you guys are right that men have to be successful in order to attrract and keep women, that does still not make it right to me, for a woman to forsake a good man just because her "friends" convince her that she outgrew me and can do better. While I have learned a lesson from all this( all the pressure resulted in my having a fvckin stroke at work 4 years ago), I have learned that in order to be a successful man in this world, we need to shoot for the top. So that is what I'm doing now. I am taking classes to get an office job so i don't have to sweat my azz off at work, and be degraded by all the women for being a hard-working nobody. I still think it all fvcking sux, but it is a way of life nowadays.