Can a Man Be Respected Without Financial Success?

[jacknine119]

I met a girl today who friendzoned me because she just broke up with his rich boyfriend. But my friend is convincing me that if I had money she would interest in me. (She knows I'm broke) And I feel shit about myself because of this.  

Edited 2 hours ago by jacknine119

[manuel bon]

I understand that there can be attraction toward someone financially rich, but in my opinion is not an important thing. It should not be a deal breaker. You should not feel shit about yourself, because a person that chooses someone for their financial situation is shallow. 

[manuel bon]

Feeling like shit because you want to be rich and you're not, is another thing. That would mean that it's for yourself, and not for impressing or attracting others.

[CARDOZZO]

Dude, you already have your answer. 

She broke up with a rich guy. It means it is not ONLY about money. 

You can have money and be a serious jerk with no sense of humor, intelligence, swag, frame, abundance, experience, communication skills.

Trying to seduce a woman with money is not a healthy strategy.

Edited 1 hour ago by CARDOZZO

[Cireeric]

She may value money and strategically search out men with money, but such calculations can never create the real thing. Like Zizek said, that if you can name the exact attributes why you love someone its not true love. 

[LordFall]

1 hour ago, jacknine119 said:

I met a girl today who friendzoned me because she just broke up with his rich boyfriend. But my friend is convincing me that if I had money she would interest in me. (She knows I'm broke) And I feel shit about myself because of this.  

Sure. Respected by who though? There's plenty of communities in society that don't particularly value money. 

Some homeless people are well respected in their community.

If you want to be attractive to a lot of attractive women and be able to align them to your life money will be one of your biggest assets though. Why don't you just make more money instead of trying feeling shit about not having a lot of it? Shaming yourself is a useless activity, go watch some business videos on youtube and figure out a service/product to sell and reach out to people and get your friends to help you with it.