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.