UserNameless
Veteran
It's not fukked up at all. If your mate's social mobility is limited and yours isn't, she'll end up holding you back. If you have kids with someone of lower status, they'll pick up lower SES values. It makes perfect sense to exclusively date people within your own social class.
"Love" only transcends that in Disney cartoons.
How so? You're the breadwinner, right? Men often date and marry "down." You take her with you.
To me, that's not the issue.
It's more about the woman who's the Ivy League grad dismissing the male mate who works a blue collar or a low-to mid-level white collar job with a ceiling.
Could that work if the love is there, and he's just as sharp communicatively?
And it's not about values.
Ivy League grads with high SES have helped reinforce the "values" that justify the bail out of banks, neglect of the impoverished and overall sacrifice of the people for capital gain...
I'm curious as to what your "values" are...