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(01-05-2019 06:53 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  

(01-05-2019 06:06 AM)Higgins Wrote:  

(01-05-2019 04:52 AM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

You know that would never, EVER, work, right?

Please, break it down why not.

Man: “oops, transferred it to the wrong address, it’s gone”
Judge: “ok then you’re going to jail” *slams gavel*

The judge would jail you for contempt, but more to the point, he would divide your assets so the "lost" $500K comes out of your portion, and then some. He simply wouldn't believe it was lost, so he would punish you disporportionally as a a result.

Now if you slowly diverted money to crypto for years, and never told anyone or even mentioned crypto in any way to your wife over the years, and made sure the rest of your finances were simple and straight forward, you could agree to an uncontested divorce where your wife gets all the terms she wants, and then you could get away with your secret crypto stash.

You'd have to wait for years to spend it though, and show nothing in your lifestyle that appears to be beyond your divorce raped means.

All in all, it's a difficult strategy to pull off, and then if you managed to hide the bulk of your assets so she is truly fooled and you keep the lion's share, you couldn't spend it or you'd still get caught.

Regarding the MMM situation, I agree with some of the earlier posters that he erred in not even providing a lifestyle for his wife that they could prudently afford. He was excessively scrooge-like in an OCD way, and it's basic LTR game not to do this.

A woman chooses a man as a provider, and invests her time in him with the expectation it will pay off for her and her children. If a rich husband wants to permanently live like someone who is so broke they have to apply emergency austerity measures, he is guarenteed to be dumped.

The words thrifty and miser have a similar meaning on the surface, but miser has had a negative connotation since ancient times. Unfortunately, in these decadent times, even if he hadn't been a miser, he still would he been at high risk of her divorcing him and cleaning him out.