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How women have killed love by being materialistic

Long gone are days when love was a feeling, a special emotion that sat deep in your heart, you shivered, ached, and even cried hungrily for this man. You’d have chosen him over anything, but that was then.  Money came alongand changed the rules of the game and kicking out all your believed about love.

Long time ago, people depended on marriage to raise their social status. If you were lucky to find a man and get married, you were considered a wealthy woman. Love was sacred and you got married for love. Sex was a heavenly piece of pie enjoyed only in the confines of the marital bed.

Now love is a bound up with our careless desires and wishes for material wealth. We live in a society where we think money will spring up happiness and ‘broke’ love is good as garbage. We have created a mentality that love is money. We dump those dampened by financial woes and find a wealthier partner in a blink of a second.

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