How you know you're a forever girlfriend

No, no billionaires for me. I’d never say money doesn’t matter. I believe money matters far more than love and that women need to secure their financial security above pretty much anything else. So in that respect fair play to her. My point is more that I hope she gets what she needs and ultimately leaves because it’s no way to live forever. That she’s building her own brand is great, she needs to be leveraging the relationship not loving the man.

Yeah men are the real gold diggers anyway. We don’t need to be shamed into taking on broke men, so if all men are terrible, may as well pick one with money.

💯 Agreed, all of it!! This is FDS, and I’ve made comments like yours a lot over the years that folks don’t grasp bc to them it seems like marrying rich is automatically seen as a dangerous way to come up, and career is automatically seen as a safe way to come up. Nuances and the woman’s specific context are everything is what I think we’re saying here.

I hate mama’s boys too

He’s Portuguese!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The Spanish and the Portuguese are the OG “machistas”, and they brought that BS to América. Ronaldo being a “filhinho do mãe” (mamma’s boy) is SOOOO NOT surprising.

💯 That part! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Awful message and so tacky.

Look at Ted Lasso, even the catholic Latam guy has a threesome

She probably feels like being the mother of his children, access to his network, status and lifestyle benefits are a good enough deal. And from a purely transactional perspective it actually is . There is no love here.

So much of what humans worship I don’t find fulfilling or substantial in the least. I want love. And I want a man that is besotted with me and seeks to display that by granting me emotional and financial security, openly, unabashedly, and without any prompting or compulsion on my part.

He’s a man without any real substance, a physically talented person with morals askew, who comes across as utterly boring and simple minded.

Messi on the other hand comes across as humble, kind, competent, with strong core values. His demeanor lends a certain profoundness and grace. He behaves like he knows there’s more to life than mindless materialism and vanity. A great HVM role model for young boys. Not a rapist, very altruistic, community driven and a family man.

I think you're spot on. She's settling for his network and proximity to fame. Hope that's enough for her to stay with a rapist. How sad

yup in 2005 two woman came forward, police didn't care. 2009 another woman came forward, and then a leaked recording came out of him in conversation with his lawyers were he admits to doing it but that recording couldn’t be used in court because it was confidential with his lawyer. He paid off one of the women but then she ended up speaking out anyway. He got away with it all because he is a rich famous man. I read the case and it was horrific what he done, he even said himself "She said no and stop several times." but he didn't stop. And of course his fanboys all around the world think he done absolutely nothing wrong and call the women lying goldiggers who wanted fame. The fact that he is one of the most loved football players in the world and the most followed person on instagram makes me sick. he is a monster.

It must have been so difficult for her to come forward in 2009. Especially because he was THE GOLDEN BOY at the time.

That’s so fucking awful

I believe this too, and I've heard similar whispers. Even when he raped that woman he sodomized her no? I really think men of this generation are worse than their ancestors. At least boomer men believed in a more equitable exchange. If they were gay and ethical they would proffer an arrangement that conferred the highest socio-economic benefits possible. I feel like men of this generation: genZ, millennials and young GenX’s are very resentful of women, and begrudge them every petty little thing. It’s ridiculous.

@whatislove are we talking about Italians here?

That’s what I think too.

The army should have stood up for you. That pisses me off so much. Really, f their culture.

I was LIVID about being treated like a 2nd class citizen there! I EARNED my rank and for them to cave to a lawn ballet star makes me physically ill! All of those fat sheiks in sheets benefitting from our protection and hard work and making me sit in the back of the HMMWV like I was a private was just so insulting! I should have just been a gold digger like this woman and produced a bunch of kids out of wedlock, and then I'd have gotten more respect. Disgusting!

As far as I know he was never officially convicted, but there have been multiple accusations and I think they were settled out of court for the most part. It happens a lot with sexual assault cases and wealthy men - and then they and their fanboys can say hE wAs nEvEr FoUnD GuiLty.

Criminal law is supposed to operate on the "innocent until proven guilty" standard, which is a good idea broadly speaking, but for me when the crime is rape, I operate under "where there is smoke, there's fire." Women don't frivolously accuse men of this, no matter how much MRAs try to pretend we do. If anything, women still under-report rape because of social stigma or not wanting to mess up some guy's life and reputation despite what he did to her. If a man has been accused of rape, he is 99.99% for sure a rapist, whether he ends up in jail or not.