<p>So many questions about relationships! But it seems boys are brought up to have some sort of inferiority complex (my scoff mimics Holden Caulfield's)- they want to be richer and smarter than their partner.</p>
<p>So guys:</p>
<p>1) Would it matter if she was smarter (had more degrees, pursues more knowledge, understands why the sky is blue) than you?</p>
<p>2) Would it matter, assuming you had a household together, that she made significantly more money than you?</p>
<p>I certainly wouldn‘t mind it as much as I would if she was dumb as a brick.</p>
<p>I’d love it. Wouldn’t put as much pressure on me to keep the income steady and with another person in the family making a lot more money, maybe we could retire early.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind. When you’re in a relationship, both sides have to give something to offer. Chances are, one side will offer more in one thing than the other and in something else, its vice versa. That’s just how it is. I don’t see why it’s such a big deal. Let your pride go!</p>
<p>“Nah, i only marry stupid and poor women”</p>
<p>Any guy who finds issue with marrying a smart girl with a very well paying job has mommy issues, grew up in a conservative household stuck in the 50s, or has a deep-rooted inferiority complex</p>
<p>Well this thread is obviously going to have a strong self-selection bias.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter to me. I would be fine with it. Wouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>I’d marry one that makes more money that me. At my school, there isn’t a single “smart” girl. As in absolute elite, the top 5-7 students in my grade level are all guys, and the “smart” girls are just super hard working girls who really don’t have the problem solving skills or brains to work on the fly.</p>
<p>^… Or maybe they’re also intelligent and you’re not giving them enough credit.</p>
<p>I am married to someone who is smarter than me and makes more money than me. Seems to have worked out well, as least for me.</p>
<p>Yeah of course I would.
Who is so prideful that they wouldn’t?</p>
<p>I’d marry a girl like that</p>
<p>Disclaimer: She can’t be better than me at almost everything
And if she is prideful and that kicks in (negatively), the answer is no, which is a problem of marrying someone smarter.–She can’t expect me to be an Ivy Leaguer, rather it’s best that she is happy that I’m making a smart move attending a local college rather than going away.</p>
<p>And no, please don’t be better than me at my own EE major… She can be better in math, chemistry, biology, etc. I would love her as someone that keeps me up to knowledge with all the cool things that she knows/learns in Science because I love learning.</p>
<p>In addition, at the current time, trying to be the smartest is sort of cutthroat (in whatever academic competitions intramural or intermural)… I like the situation where we’re tag teaming in competition against others rather than competing between us :D</p>
<p>Why not. Yolo.</p>
<p>If I were a college, the process by which I select partners would be considered to be “holistic.” Of course, I’m not a super prestigious college, and the applicant pool is much smaller, but you get the point.</p>
<p>Yeah doesn’t matter to me. Why not have a sugar momma?</p>
<p>I have yet to meet a girl who likes to learn, and when they find out I like to actually like to learn outside of school they are baffled, which is in turn off putting to me, yet again I’m still in high school who knows what I may find.</p>
<p>I could never date a girl who was either smarter or made more money than me. It would kill all my aspirations.</p>