The Good Life isn't just about Money
It had been three years since we had tied the knot and become Mr. and Mrs. Dave and Molly Jacobs, and if you asked either of us about our relationship, we would tell you a bit of a different story on the status of our marriage. Molly would say the sex was fantastic, the friendship and love between us was very strong and she couldn't imagine being married to a better person. However, the biggest problem to her was the lack of money and unfortunately, she couldn't see a path to where we would ever be able to have the things that she really wanted in life.
You see, Molly had grown up poor. So poor that her family couldn't even afford an occasional nice dinner out. So poor that all of her clothes were either made by her mother, or purchased second hand at the thrift shop. So poor that she couldn't afford a bicycle when she was young, or couldn't afford to go to the movies, join any after school clubs, go out with friends on the weekend; in short, she was constantly frustrated at the lack of any money to spend on herself and she was jealous of her friends at school that always seemed to get whatever they wanted. Molly swore that one day she would have all the nice things in life and never want for anything.
In her final year in high school, she met me, good old steady Dave. I did have money, or at least my parents did. We lived in a nice neighborhood, had nice cars and I was always dressed casual but in high quality clothes. But from everything that Molly could tell, and from my attitude, she could see that I just didn't seem to care about money
I assured her that I didn't notice that she wore second hand clothes. I swore to her that I saw her as the most beautiful and elegant girl in school. In hindsight, I can now see that she wasn't sure that I would end up being the guy who could take her out of her poverty, but after a while it didn't seem to matter as she loved my personality, loved how handsome and strong she thought I was, and loved what I did to her beneath the sheets.
She couldn't believe how perfect my cock felt in her pussy and how she always seemed to have multiple orgasms when we made love. I also loved to go down on her and I could eat her pussy for hours, giving her a multitude of pleasing orgasms. I just couldn't get enough of the taste of her sweet pussy. So, despite her concerns about whether we could obtain riches and ever live the upper-class life she desired; she fell in love with me and she accepted my marriage proposal that I delivered on bended knee the day we both finished our AA degrees at the community college in town.
Molly ended up getting a certificate in paralegal work, which she figured would give her an adequate and steady income, and although not getting her rich, she could at least buy reasonable clothes, go out to clubs and bars, and have the occasional night out at a good restaurant.
I decided I would become a physical therapist, learning massage and occupational therapy exercises to help treat people with muscle pain or being rehabilitated from surgery or injury. It would never make me rich, but I loved the interaction with the people and I liked the work and the way it made me feel; helping people out of pain and misery. I also didn't want a job sitting at a desk all day long; what could be more boring.
I realized that this wouldn't make us rich, and I knew that Molly had a lot of frustration about not being able to live the upper-class suburban life; but I really enjoyed our current life; loved our sex life and the fact that we had so much fun hanging around together, no matter what we were doing.
I also knew something that Molly didn't. My Grandparents had been very rich, and when they died, they left my parents a sum of $15 Million dollars, and that sum was in a trust that they could draw upon until they passed away, at which time the trust would go to me. My father has passed away of a heart attack two years ago and my mother had not fared well since his death. The last few years had been rough, but she still loved and missed him when he was gone.
My Mother was not at all interested in the trust fund and in fact both she and I saw the money as being somewhat poisonous to life. My parents had such a strong bond and loving life together, and then my Grandparents died and my Dad got the money. It totally changed him, and not for the better. He quit work, started to drink and party; bought fast cars and spent vast sums of money gambling and doing party drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. I'm guessing an escort or two might have also happened, but I never knew that for sure and never asked my Mom about that.
His new lifestyle started to destroy their marriage and also his body. Within two years he had drank and partied himself to a horrible health, with the final death blow being a massive heart attack at a casino in Vegas. Both my mom and I had seen the money destroy his life and neither one of us really wanted much to do with the life of luxury and temptation; we just wanted to keep our lives the way they were when we were a happy family, before Dad fell to the temptations that unlimited money can bring.
After his death, I made it a point to see Mom at least every other week, and tried to get her interested in outside activities, travel, charity work; basically, anything to get her out of her depression about Dads passing. But she told me to leave it alone; her life was now about friends, church, and me, and she reminded me that the money did nothing but ruin my Father.
I had not told Molly about the trust knowing that she was overly motivated about money and possessions and I didn't want her to start buying things on credit, or start wishing for the demise of my mother, or have her spending all of her time thinking and hoping about a rich future and ignoring what we now had in our ever day loving life.
Besides, it was hopefully years off in the future that my mother would pass and no reason to get Molly's hopes up about having a lot of money and seeing her potential greed kick in and alter either our relationship or get her even more frustrated with our current lifestyle.
I could see my mother was lonely, and depressed, and I finally figured out why when she told me she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and her future was not assured. But she really downplayed the potential severity of it and I was kind of oblivious to that possibility. She didn't tell me that she might not have long to live as she didn't want me to cater to her and her needs when I was just establishing my own life with, in her words, "my pretty young wife".
Besides, Mom thought, the Doctors really couldn't predict or tell her much of anything and she thought she would probably go on for years. The Doctors thought they had caught the cancer with the lumpectomy and radiation and hadn't indicated to her that any demise was in her near future, although one Doctor did say that a few of her lymph nodes were found to be cancerous and therefore she needed to be highly attentive to any changes in health or any lumps or bumps that she noticed.
As Molly and I approached our 5
th
year of marriage, I was totally content and happy with our lives, and although Molly loved me dearly and was content on a day-to-day basis, and the sex was fantastic as we made love four or five times a week; I knew she also longed for a day sooner than later when she could feel rich and not have to worry about money or working, and have some of the things that she had always coveted after when she was younger.
Molly kept trying to improve her status at work in an attempt to get promoted and improve her salary and benefits. She worked for a well-respected and highly sought-after law firm, specializing in family law and divorce as well as real-estate and taxes. The principal owner of the firm, Jay Sutter, was a 51-year-old balding and somewhat paunchy man who had started the law firm 25 years ago and built it into the firm with the largest billings in the region. He had worked himself hard over the years, and had neglected his personal life, never having married and having no kids or offspring to consume his time.
Sutter's personal assistant was retiring, so he had posted the job internally for the various paralegals in the firm to have the first chance at this promotion before he sought candidates from the outside. Molly was his third and last interview for the position and she had told me how excited she was about the possibility. "Dave, it would be a 20% increase right off the bat and a chance at a 10% bonus at the end of the year. I know it will be more hours, and even some weekend work, but I really can't pass up the opportunity for promotion. Is it okay with you that I pursue this?"
"Sure Molly, you are free to do whatever works for your career. Nothing is forever, and if it doesn't work out you can always find something else, but if you stick it out for a year or two it will look great on your resume and be a stepping stone for bigger things."