Why do some successful women make poor relationship choices?

[tigerstripes]

The Rockefeller trial got me thinking about how some smart and successful women make such poor relationship choices.

 

She said "it's possible for someone to be "really brilliant" in one area of life and "really stupid in another."

 

Thoughts?

[Enema]

I'm not sure what there is to discuss.

 

There has never been a correlation between professional success and relationship success.

[Star Gazer]

There has never been a correlation between professional success and relationship success.

 

I was going to say almost the very same thing.

 

One's emotions (relational) are not necessarily tied to one's logic (professional). In fact, many would say the very opposite is true.

[alphamale]

The Rockefeller trial got me thinking about how some smart and successful women make such poor relationship choices.

 

She said "it's possible for someone to be "really brilliant" in one area of life and "really stupid in another."

 

Thoughts?

everyone makes bad decisions in some area of their life

[tigerstripes]

We were talking about it at work and someone made that correlation. So I thought about it and I found the argument to hold some water.

[Atalanta]

The Rockefeller trial got me thinking about how some smart and successful women make such poor relationship choices.

 

She said "it's possible for someone to be "really brilliant" in one area of life and "really stupid in another."

 

Thoughts?

 

 

You're referring to the German conman who passed himself off as a Rockefeller, no? Vanity Fair wrote a great article on the case, and it would seem that this woman simply wanted to believe everything the guy said (although why she didn't hire a PI and do a background check from the outset is beyond me).

[Trialbyfire]

The Rockefeller trial got me thinking about how some smart and successful women make such poor relationship choices.

 

She said "it's possible for someone to be "really brilliant" in one area of life and "really stupid in another."

 

Thoughts?

I've seen some really dumb and unsuccessful women/men or smart, successful men make poor relationship choices too...

 

Stick around on LS for another six months, viewing as many threads as possible. You'll see that there's no real pattern beyond some learning from experiences and others, not.

[LoveLace]

I've seen some really dumb and unsuccessful women/men or smart, successful men make poor relationship choices too...

 

 

Yep! I have a hard-working, VERY successful male friend that is head over heals for a vodka-pills gal that never gets her a** to work, and also treats him crappy. Oh, but she's HOT.

 

Haven't you ever watched Jerry Springer? There's some poor relationship choices for you, among some of America's finest gents and ladies

 

My poor choices have nothing to do with success...the self-esteem it brings might raise my standards on a respect level, but going into things, you don't really know what you are going to get. It isn't as though you think it's a "poor choice" at the start, obviously. But for those who stay with the poor choice, there's 1,000's of factors there from comfort to convenience...or from simply that person's life long pattern of relationships...that started before "success" ever came into the picture.