“Money can’t buy happiness. But neither can poverty.”
Money may not be able to buy love and happiness, but money and love are certainly happier together. While money alone cannot guarantee a happy and lasting relationship, it can help you find, attract, and maintain love in different ways.
Here are five ways money could buy you love.
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Money can buy you time
Time is a precious and limited resource, and how you spend it can affect your happiness and well-being. Money can help you buy more time for yourself and your partner, by allowing you to outsource tasks, hire services, or take breaks from work.
For example, a study by researchers from the USA, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands found that spending money on time-saving services promotes happiness and life satisfaction.
In modern life, we are time starved, and it feels good to have that much more time to do something that truly brings you happiness, such as spending quality time with your partner.
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Money can buy you opportunity
Let’s face it, finding love is not easy, and sometimes it depends on luck and chance. Money can help you increase your chances of meeting the right person, by giving you access to more opportunities and experiences. For example, money can help you travel to new places, join clubs or classes, attend events, or try new hobbies.
These activities can expose you to new people, cultures, and ideas, and broaden your horizons. You never know when or where you might find your soulmate, but money can help you explore more possibilities.
A British study assures indicated that that people with higher annual incomes are more likely to have found love than those with lower incomes. The funny thing is that the same study found that high earners were more likely to have fallen in love as many as five times during their lifetime.
Indeed, money can sometimes buy love! How long the love lasts, is a different story?
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Money can buy you peace of mind
Money can’t solve all your problems, but it can certainly reduce some of them. Money can help you achieve financial security, stability, and freedom, which can reduce your stress and anxiety levels.
Money can also help you cope with unexpected challenges, such as illness, divorce, or job loss, by providing you with a safety net and a cushion.
A study by a Swedish researchers on lottery winners found that even after years, people who won the lottery had greater life satisfaction, mental health, and were more prepared to face misfortune than regular folks who didn’t win the lottery.
It’s almost as if having a pile of money made those things less difficult to cope with for the winners. Having peace of mind can make you more relaxed, confident, and optimistic, which can make you more attractive and appealing to potential partners.
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Money can buy you the best you
Money can help you invest in yourself and become the best version of yourself. Money can help you improve your physical appearance, health, and fitness, by allowing you to buy clothes, accessories, cosmetics, gym memberships, or medical care.
Money can also help you enhance your skills, knowledge, and creativity, by allowing you to pursue education, training, or hobbies.
Money can also help you express your personality, values, and passions, by allowing you to buy things that reflect who you are and what you care about. All these things can make you more confident, interesting, and attractive, which can help you find and keep love.
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Money can buy you generosity
Money can help you be more generous and altruistic, which can make you more lovable and likable. Money can help you spend on others, such as buying gifts, donating to charity, or treating your friends. Money can also help you share your wealth and resources with your partner, such as paying for dates, trips, or bills.
Research shows that spending money on others brings people more happiness than spending money on oneself. In contrast, spending on oneself is not related to happiness. These findings hold for even small amounts of cash. In one study, the researchers gave participants either $5 or $20. Participants who were instructed to spend the money on others were happier as a result than those who were instructed to spend it on oneself.
The amount of money participants spent did not matter. What mattered was what they did with it.
One for the road
“Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
