My family thinks I am dating under “my league.”

I’ve been on the other side of this. I was dating a really beautiful and gregarious girl from a decently well-off family. And at the time I was an army hard charger with no college education and was definitely more than a little rough around the edges. Her family absolutely despised me because they saw their daughter as way out of my league. By then, though, I was already doing a lot of stock trading and what the family did not know is that I was already pretty loaded for someone only 21 — and very ambitious.

It was this woman that I wrote about earlier.

It turned out that she was terrible and abusive. After me, she ended up with someone she deserved from what I heard, someone who treated her terribly (which is what she seemed to deeply want). Her career also fizzled and she became an obese barely-employed alcoholic completely dependent on her husband.

Meanwhile I continued to get more awesome every day. Love it.