Woman Ditches Her Career and Becomes a Stay at Home Girlfriend

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Credit: SWNS / Emily de Rean  A woman who ditched her corporate career has shared her 'rules' to become a stay-at-home girlfriend - including staying in your best shape, learning to cook and never dating someone for their potential.   Emily de Rean, 37, hadn’t always aspired to be a stay-at-home girlfriend but decided to quit her corporate job as a financial analyst, after her dad passed away from cancer and she realised life was too short 'to be unhappy'.

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00:00 I've never dated guys that were like financially struggling because it's just not my lifestyle.

00:07 I think life's too short really.

00:09 Hi there, my name is Emily.

00:17 I live in Dallas, Texas and for the past two and a half years I have been a stay at home

00:23 girlfriend.

00:24 Now I've brided to a stay at home fiancé.

00:30 We got to know each other within probably the first six months.

00:34 He is an entrepreneur himself, he's a business owner and he said, "You know, you have a lot

00:38 of good ideas, a lot of things you want to do."

00:40 So he said, "I'm very serious about you and if you're open to it, let's just have you

00:46 not work so you can devote your time to something more productive."

00:50 That's the word that he used, something more productive.

00:54 I've never dated guys that were like financially struggling because it's just not my lifestyle.

01:02 You know, if on the first date he doesn't offer to pick you up, it's the fact that he

01:13 didn't offer.

01:14 These are telltale signs, you know, the way that a man acts.

01:17 You go out to dinner, check comes and he sends you a Venmo or a request for money or he says,

01:22 "Oh hi," gets the bill and he's like, "Oh, how do you want to do this?"

01:25 That's a no go.

01:37 People think that to become a stay at home girlfriend you have to be with a multimillionaire

01:41 and that is far, far from the truth.

01:44 You know, there's nothing wrong with a man who wants to be, let's say, a high school

01:47 teacher.

01:48 But if you're a woman whose ultimate goal is to be a stay at home girlfriend or a stay

01:53 at home wife, somebody who's a teacher is never going to be able to afford that, you

01:58 know?

01:59 Of course you date and marry for love, but it's normal to have requirements because men

02:03 have requirements as to what we look like.

02:07 I got a lot of negative comments.

02:13 He's going to leave you, you're going to be homeless, you're lazy, you're a leech, you're

02:19 not very smart.

02:20 Like some people are robots.

02:21 They've been conditioned to think a certain way and they refuse to think outside the box

02:26 because I don't look down on women that want to be in 50/50 relationships.

02:30 I don't look down on girls that want to work 60 hours a week.

02:34 Some actually like it.

02:35 I'm just talking to girls and telling them, "Hey, there's other options."

02:39 It's never too late to create your dream life and live for yourself.

02:44 Don't live for the expectations of others.

02:46 I really think we are the master of our own destiny.

02:50 If I can do it, so can you.

03:00 (upbeat music)

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