November 18, 2006

Advice for the aspiring corporate wife. If only Kevin Federline had seen this article, maybe the marriage would have lasted.

"One of the most important rules regulating the game of “corporate wife”: when it is your husband’s event, you don’t leave the house without first checking what he wants you to wear...The list of rules goes on and you have to learn them if your husband is to get where he needs to get to, allowing you to get where you need to get to."

posted by mandyman 18 years ago
  • Interesting article, but the world of the super rich is so far from my experience that it's hard to add a cogent comment.
  • Funny to think of all the efficiency, smarts, social ability, etc. exhibited by these women to make "successful" billionaires' wives... what it could be in its own right, instead of just propping up a rich husband. Sorta sad, really. To me.
  • It seems sad to me, too. I'm pretty glad that I'd make a lousy corporate wife.
  • I asked my husband if I could be a trophy wife after we married (more of a self-obsessed bimbo version of the above) but he said no along with some claptrap about my brains and my own career and creative interests. whatever!!
  • I can imagine myself, under the right circumstances, not minding treating my marriage as a job, if only there was job security.
  • *gags
  • The problem, TUM, is that you never get any time off from the job. It's 24/7, and you can never let your guard down. Blab something inappropriate to your maid because it's six in the morning and you have a fever and a flu? It'll get pasted in the gossip columns the following day. For the Asian rich set, it gets more ludicrous, because the wives not only have to please their husbands, but the entire family as well, including siblings-in-laws, rich cousins, family friends and even the more senior servants. I think the optimum advice is: Get into this "job" only if you think you can put on a mask 24 hours a day, for the rest of your life (or until you get traded in for a younger model).
  • You see this quite a lot here. Especially among foreign residents. There is quite a divide here between the ex-pat wives and the career women types.
  • What I don't understand is why intelligent women put up with that sort of thing? Why don't they all just say, no, this is not how things will be? Because they could still be divorced, but he wouldn't find another intelligent woman. He would condemned to life with a stupid woman, and that seems a suitable punishment. disclosure: I married into money. But then his scholarship ran out.
  • But yes, I agree with path. Increasingly I find that American magazine articles (British and Canadian too) are about so high a class that they have no relation to my world. I remember one discussing the choice that parents (implying all) make whether to put their children in a private school or not. Yeah, right, that's just one of those hard decisions the Walmart set have to face. No offence to the Walmart set, my family is firmly in it.
  • No advice for the aspiring corporate or trophy husband? Meh.
  • All the more fodder for my belief that the institution of marriage itself is ripe for sweeping reform. Every year when I do my taxes, the sham marriage starts to look better and better. ;-) Apparently, the marriage of convenience is alive and well in the U.S. military.
  • yes, which is why we need to fully legalize gay+ marriages...obviously the hets have done a disasterous job of it, perhaps the queer nation of all stripes can give a better example?? seriously.
  • People like this make me sick. People like this are what make the world sick.