The three most important decisions you will make in your life are:

1. How will you earn a living?

2. Who will you do life with?

3. Where will you live?

You see 1 & 3? You can change them whenever you decide to.

But you see 2? Big wahala!

That's why relationships are hard!

Relationships will not get easier just because you earn more, or move to a "better" place.

"What do you bring to the table?" will always be a legitimate question, regardless of your gender or lack thereof.

You can't expect things from someone else and offer nothing in return.

As a matter of fact, the more you earn; the better your living conditions and or quality of life, the more you will expect from relationships, whether romantic or otherwise.

When you have little or nothing, you love based on liking the individual and being liked/loved back...

When you start getting on well in life, good education, good job, decent living conditions; you love based on the individual matching or bettering your situation. Nobody wants to go to the ghetto to visit the love of their life.

As for the super rich, you already know that their "love" is typically based on your political/social connects. Wealth wants to join with wealth, or at least access to power and or influence.

Wealthy people marrying Cinderellas are once in a blue moon occurrences. You know this.

This thread is basically why I explore the complexities of human sexual relationships in my stories.

Relationships, especially romantic/sexual ones, are a big part of our existence and have an immense impact on the totality of our lives.

There are no easy answers or manuals.