Would you enter a relationship with a homeless person or a person on welfare?

[Aphelios]

If you loved them or they loved you, would you date them?

Of course, money is not important in a relationship. Love is the only thing that matters to me.

No, I want someone with money, a car, and a house. My partner has to have a good income, or I won't date them. Capital is essential to me in a relationship.

[Anonymous]

Unless mental disabilities/issues (such as PTSD & veterans) or seniors on poor pensions most people who end up homeless do so for a problematic reason. Drug addicts, alcoholism, gambling, living beyond their means, poor money management, etc. Factors most people wouldn't want to be bothered with.

Similarly a lot of people end up on welfare for a problematic reason.

It was once meant to be a pick-me-up to help people; nowadays you have generations living on it. I used to live, in university due to the lower rent, in high welfare areas. Drug abuse, alcoholism, scamming the system, no education & half a dozen bastard kids by 30, etc. Factors most people wouldn't want to be bothered with.

Has NOTHING to do with money, car, etc. and EVERYTHING to do with someone's own sense of self-respect & self-esteem. What is the advantage of getting involved with a homeless person or someone on welfare if none of their family or friends are the same? They will be mocked, demeaned, ridiculed, etc. and isolated.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

Depends on the guy. If you gave me the most average person on welfare or homeless, my answer would be no.

[MCheetah]

As long as she wasn't trying to use me for money or free stuff, then option A. Cause I ain't giving her a dime! Even if she's literally homeless. But she can "work for me," if she's really that badly hurting for funds. Something can be arranged, if need be. Contractually legally binding, of course.

[OlderAndWiser]

I would never get to the point ot being in love with someone who was homeless or receiving welfare. The odds are great that our values and backgrounds would simply be too disparate.

[DCowboy4747]

I have been on the streets before, not everyone there is a junkie, lazy, or a druggie. Some are there because of bad decisions or have just hit a very, very rough point in their life. People pray constantly for that one person who will love them for them, things come and go, money is earned and spent, when you find the one who is right for you no materialistic thing will be able to come between you.

[TroyDT2]

Gut reaction, no, but there might be exceptions. Temporarily homeless because ran from abuse? Possibly, but unlikely. I'd help her find help, but I'm not inclined to voluntarily jump into the drama of dealing with a crazy ex. On welfare temporarily because widowed? Possibly, and definitely more likely than the former.

[OddBeMe]

There’s a standard we all have of ambition or class…sorry to say that word. But it’s true.

[Aphelios]

I am not against anyone's choice. It's just I hear a lot of people who say money is not important to them at all, so I was just trying to see how true that is.

[OddBeMe]

They’re certainly lying. But I would believe they think love is more important. That doesn’t mean they don’t have financial standards for mates.

[Berethor]

I guess, as a guy I don't care that much about lover's money.

[LazerBean]

No, I would not date someone whose primary income care from mooching. If someone can't do the most basic adult things as an adult, I'm not interested in partnering with them to build a family.

[trulyanattentionhog]

My fiancé is in fact homeless rn and that doesn’t stop me from loving him any less,

[Sour-rose]

Nah. Not because they have no money, it's probably what they think of money. If they remind me anything of my family, i can't have any dead weight as a partner.

[Anonymous]

If asking for not being an unemployed bum that's draining my money is equal to wanting a rich person with money, car and house, then i'm going to vote for me being a proud capitalistic pig.

[Nikki1989]

Yes, of course, and I have a few times.

[AngryCarl]

Man, half the country is on welfare.

[AngryCarl]

It's called Brexit.

[AimeeKyle]

It is highly unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Not likely.