<p>Try imagining all the worst case scenarios. Imagine she is indeed one of those bottom 20% dentists who earns next to nothing. Imagine that she doesn't even get her dentist career launched. Or even that she decided to turn a 180 and decide to be a social worker or something.</p>
<p>And initial chemistry doesn't matter for snizzle 20-30 years down the line.</p>
<p>If you do marry her, I bet 7 out of 10 that you'll cheat on her. And if you do, I hope you get a miserable life then.</p>
<p>Damn dude, what a leech. And i'm pretty sure it's not gonna be mansions and cheese so easy, as everyone else has pointed out.She's just an aspiring immigrant dentist who has not even practised back home, not a CEO of a fortune five hundred company.</p>
<p>oh yeah, because dentists make soo much money. maybe if you live in the middle of nowhere a dentist income wil buy you a mansion, but most urban areas it wont do you better than a condo.</p>
<p>The average dentist salary is like 120K a year. I consider that a lot of money. If you're in the bottom 20% you're still making like 80-90K generally.</p>
<p>Really, most of these love idealists are going to get divorced a couple years after they get married.. no offense meant. How is marrying for money stupid? It's actually pretty smart...</p>
<p>But I don't think the poster would deserve any of that money after the divorce just because the spouse would be making most of it. That's just robbery.</p>
<p>That's 120 K once your practise is set and you're well established. The girl has not even practised back home. And if she's setting up her own clinic, it's a massive investment. </p>
<p>"Really, most of these love idealists are going to get divorced a couple years after they get married.. no offense meant. How is marrying for money stupid? It's actually pretty smart..."</p>
<p>My mother was first proposed to by a gentleman who, in her words "had money coming out of his eyeballs". She turned him down. She married my father, an immigrant and self-made man. (Though she turned him down the first time, too.) They have been married for nearly 30 years now. </p>
<p>The only sort of marriage that is stupid is one that is not carefully considered. If people paid half as much attention to their relationship as they did to their wedding, the divorce rate in this country would be much, much lower.</p>
<p>Whatever. Doesn't sound like a well thought out plan. But live your life, and in the end, at least you'll have a few good stories to tell.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a fitting quote.
"Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"</p>