Dear Valentine, Can You Love Me for My Credit Score?
What’s more important: Overall compatibility and happiness or finding a spouse who can match your income?
Is there a meaningful relationship underneath all this money?
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It’s common to have a checklist in the quest for finding love. People set all sorts of criteria, both in their minds and explicitly in their online dating profiles, specifying what sort of mate or lifestyle they’re seeking. If you can’t imagine a life without your dog or cat, screen for pet lovers. If having kids is a deal breaker for you, then toss that into the mix. And as marketers remind us every Valentine’s Day, entire dating apps exist to cull potential prospects based on age, political views, religion, occupation and even height.
Yet one of the few online dating moves that still makes people squeamish is filtering prospective partners based on financial status.