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Historically men haven’t been viewed as potential gold diggers. The famous Kanye West song is certainly about a woman. The movies and shows that depict gold diggers traditionally show a female after a man’s money. As women, we aren’t really conditioned to consider that somebody could be after us for our money. In fact, we’re conditioned to make sure it doesn’t look like we are after a man’s money. We worry about men only being after us for sex a lot. But money? Not often—unless the woman is famous or has a very visible position in society. But you don’t have to be a celebrity or politician for men to know you’re wealthy. Google can tell people plenty. Having someone date you for your money is painful and even dangerous. Here are signs he’s just after you for your money.

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He’s very opinionated about your work

He involves himself too much in your work discussions—how you invest, how much you pay someone, what you buy and so on. He is so involved it’s almost as if you losing money would affect him in some way.

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He talks about his own money problems a lot

He finds little ways to mention his financial problems. Even if he does so in a joking manner, he makes little comments about his being broke several times a day. He doesn’t want to directly ask you to pay for his life, so he does so indirectly.

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He’s out of your league and you’re rich

We aren’t supposed to say this one, but we’re more concerned with protecting you overall than just protecting your feelings in the moment. If you’re dating an underwear model who has other underwear models throw themselves at him regularly and you’re cute—sure—but not that, but you are loaded, you have to stop and think.

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He wouldn’t let you quit work to be happier

You’ve talked about retiring early or just taking on less hours at work because you’re tired. Maybe you want to travel or write a book. He always discourages you from this decision—the decision that you are stating would make you happy.