Romance without finance is a nuisance

By Kleinheider Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:04 pm

The still single but now formerly affluent are having a tougher time on the dating circuit these days:

From investment bankers to real estate developers to construction workers, no job means no buying rounds of $15 martinis for a pretty woman and her girlfriends. No hosting parties in the bachelor loft. And often, no idea how to present one’s new self on the dating market.

“It’s been incredibly stressful for me,” said Neil Welsh, 27, the guy in the suit, who until last year was marketing director for a booming real estate company. “I was so used to using my financial situation to leverage my dating.”

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The trials and tribulations of kept women in a down economy

By Kleinheider Posted on January 29, 2009 at 10:06 am

The NY Times on the strain this economy has put on the relationships of those in the banking industry.

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