I just have a high income, high status job that it is pretty easy to verify with google. And it tends to grab the attention of women in the entertainment industry or who want to be part of the entertainment industry.
I wish I would have known this right away or all along. I can totally believe that women looking to break into "show-business" or further their career will throw themselves at someone they believe can help them!!! This has been going on forever. Some guys have made a life out of it. Some have gotten in big trouble for it as well, though. I mean this is pretty legendary stuff and has happened at all levels.
So if all you claim is you have women chasing you at least in part with hopes that you can help them, I totally believe you. It was the whole 1% thing (using the above definitions) that I did not believe - and turns out, for darn good reason!!!
I totally blame LH19 for all of it!!!! And apologize, Spiral
DonH Midwest Me 56 WAW-EXW 55 Met 11/95 / Married 5/00 Bomb 6/20/05 / She Filed on 6/2/06 / Divorced on 10/9/06 4 who'd qualify as GF since D & dated about 25 women since D
Words have meaning - and terms have definitions, or so I thought. This is exactly why I have said, multiple times, "depending on what a one-percenter is." I thought these were pretty universally accepted terms. Perhaps not so much.
So I've long believed and continue to believe that a ten-percenter is someone who has amassed a million dollars or more in total wealth and assets. It get's it's name from the fact that about 10% of the USA have become ten-percenters. Turns out, that this ten-percenter term may be nothing more than slang.
ten percenter in American English
informal an agent, esp. an actor's agent, whose fee is 10 percent of a client's salary
LMAO - OMG, so I guess I'm not a ten-percenter after all as I'm certainly not now, nor ever been an actors agent.
So what about the one-percenter? I've always thought that was someone who makes no less than a million dollar annual income and is moving towards a billion dollars in assets - or at least is way, way far beyond one million - or the ten-percenter. Well, again, turns out I was closer on this one but not all the way there?
one percenter in American English
As a noun: 1. Someone who is in the top 1% in terms of either yearly income or total assets. 2. Someone who simply appears to be rich. 3. Someone who spends an extremely large amount of money on a single interest. 4. Occasionally just refers to the first world in general.
Originally Posted by LH19
I'm not sure what LH's definition of a 1% man is.
A guy who wakes up to 50 matches on bumble, dates models without commitment
And LH is not even in the ballpark. If this is what is termed a one-percenter I guess I take far less issue. Although I've got to believe with all of the scammers, catfish, bots, and general goofs in their mother's basement out there, there are far more than 1% getting Bumble matches and dating "models" without commitment. Of course that now means we also have to define "models" and also "commitment". I've dated several models, and two miss Wisconsin finalists, and was never committed to either of them. But I'd never consider myself a one-percenter though I am a ten-percenter, just not the actor's agent kind.
WORDS HAVE MEAINING!!! So where did you get this one-percenter term LH? Or is this another term dreamed up by the coach?
They were actually rather beautiful. The one who won the crown still is. Although I just saw a pic of her husband and I’d swear he looks like her dad! Of course I was a in my 20s and neither went far but I’m reserving the bragging rights anyhow.
DonH Midwest Me 56 WAW-EXW 55 Met 11/95 / Married 5/00 Bomb 6/20/05 / She Filed on 6/2/06 / Divorced on 10/9/06 4 who'd qualify as GF since D & dated about 25 women since D
So, I thought that I would pop in for a quick update. The third anniversary of BD has come and gone. She withdrew the divorce petition and never refiled. I have not filed either. She texts me a lot these days. Sometimes I respond. Often I don't. There's nothing to indicate that she's ever considered reconciliation. She blames me for the divorce. She is still very angry with me and continues to plan her forever with OM. But we're still legally married. I don't understand why.
However, life is good and I'm forever grateful for DBing and the advice. I think it's why I found a way to be happy again so soon.
And apologize, Spiral