The Adventures of a Love Investigator by Barbara Silkstone

Author:Barbara Silkstone
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Humour, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780741435835
Publisher: Infinity Pub
Published: 2006-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

“I don’t want to be a stepping stone for some gorgeous broad.”

~ Len, 49, married

Case / The Anti-Trophy Wife

I begin to notice a peculiar pattern as I travel the country giving men the gift of listening. Fifty-percent of the financially well-off married guys chose to wed women who were the antithesis of trophy wives. These guys appeared to run in the opposite direction of their contemporaries. These were men who had the trappings of wealth if not the bucks. And yet half the time, they chose anti-trophy wives as a way of positioning themselves outside the pack. It was an unconscious effort not to compete because their work lives were all about competition. They didn’t want to have to worry about their mates. Like Pete they destroyed the understanding of commitment by applying fear to their decisions as to whom they chose to marry.

I contact Len after reading about him in a national publication. He was billed as a mogul. Was that like a troll? We meet in his office after I pass through his security which amounts to a one-eyed armed guard who is a former government agent. I’m thinking Post Office. It made me nervous to know this guard was packing a gun while visually impaired. The situations I get myself into.

About six feet four and slightly portly, Len has dark hair and angry eyes. He could easily pass for an actor in The Godfather. He’s wearing a three-piece suit despite the south Texas heat. Len travels from his limo to his office never stepping outside. We sit on either end of a cushy leather sofa. I’m recording and he’s pouring out his tale. “My marriage was my only failure. She was a really good looking woman. We had two kids. I wasn’t getting anything out of the relationship and then I found out she was cheating with my ex partner. I divorced her so fast she never knew what hit her. The courtroom drama wasn’t pretty, but I know my way around the legal system. My assets disappeared overnight. Amazing how that happened. Right after the divorce she took up with a kid who gave sailing lessons. She could have anyone, but she chose this young dude. I hated to see the alimony being spent on him. So I bought him.”

“What does that mean?”

“I financed his little boat business. Now he keeps me up to speed on my ex’s plans and I keep him funded. Someday I’ll pull the money-carpet out from under him and he’ll dump her. I like to keep my hand in the game.”

“I understand you just got married again.” I did a little checking before our interview and was told the woman he married is all rump and grump. She has the disposition of a cornered rattlesnake.

Now as I carefully peel away the outside layer of his brain, his gray matter spills out.

“She’s no looker but I don’t have to worry about her running off with anyone. No one else will have her.

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