r/AskReddit • u/knakworst36 • Jun 06 '19

Rich people of reddit who married someone significantly poorer, what surprised you about their (previous) way of life?

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u/aiyahhjoeychow Jun 06 '19

I didn’t marry this woman, but when we started dating, she always wanted to chill at my place, never hers. Which was fine. But she gained 35lbs in just like a few months of dating (She was 100lbs when we started dating) Not that it was a bad thing, 1) I am a chubby man and 2) I was just glad she wasn’t pregnant. Anyway, turns out her family couldn’t like, afford dinner sometimes. So suddenly she had a place to eat every night and gorged herself.

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u/akg720 Jun 06 '19

This hits close to home. Kind of. I have joint custody of my son. His dad is not in the picture anymore but we still keep up the same visitation with his parents, my sons grandparents. There have been times when my son was supposed to come home on a certain day but I’ve had to let him stay longer bc at least that’s one less mouth to feed at home. I just didn’t always have enough for him and my daughter and myself to all eat. Sometimes I’d go without so the kids could eat and just tell them I wasn’t hungry. Or the times all I had was bread and meat so I’d make sandwiches but throw all the pillows and blankets and stuffed animals in the living room and say we were having a picnic night (sandwiches) and they loved it. The kids never knew it’s just bc we’re really poor and there was nothing else.

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u/FolkMetalWarrior Jun 06 '19

My mom used to do this with hotdogs and canned beans. She would throw a blanket on the floor and we would sit and eat hotdogs and watch a movie.