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Did Gage just admit to being a gold digger?

posted 8 years ago by mckjay13
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At therapy when Dr. Jan asked what initially drew Gage to Jeff, all he could initially come up with is that Jeff was a good provider and had drive...

Drive obviously means success for his business, but a consequence of Jeff's drive is that he also gets the perks of material success.

I don't know what everyone else's definition of gold digger is. And I'm sure Gage does love Jeff, but his desire to be with Jeff seems so rooted in materialism.

Jeff has said that he loves being a provider to people (which can be dangerous given his issues with wanting to control people..Zoila especially), but on the couch even Jeff looked a little surprised that Gage couldn't come up with something outside of his work ethic.

[–] TorontoBlueJay 8 years ago

Gage is like LuAnne on RHONY. Money makes the negatives go away...

[–] mindthinkr 8 years ago

Lol....is this a disease called engagement fever?

[–] Kompressor_Fan 8 years ago

I'm not a big fan of Gage, but I get where he is coming from. I have a good job myself, and I have to admit I am not interested at all in getting involved with anyone that makes substantially less than I do. I'm not looking to support someone else. Someone that is in my range would be just perfect.

By the same token, I really wouldn't want to be involved with someone that was wealthy. I don't have any desire to be the "powerless" one, and either live under another's thumb, or the threat of it. I prefer someone like me....an educated professional with a good job and a good income.

[–] Poetist 8 years ago

I'm not a big fan of Gage, but I get where he is coming from. I have a good job myself, and I have to admit I am not interested at all in getting involved with anyone that makes substantially less than I do. I'm not looking to support someone else. Someone that is in my range would be just perfect.

Hold up. I get what you're saying about yourself, but I don't think it applies to Gage. Gage was selling jeans from his trunk, and he was nowhere the level of Jeff. He's definitely a gold digger.

[–] Kompressor_Fan 8 years ago

My grandfather was selling frozen food out of the trunk of his car at a point in the 1950's when people thought that frozen food would never catch on. They were wrong. In a period of several years he went from being poor as a church mouse to being a multi-millionaire.

[–] LoBo_77018 8 years ago

Is it gold digging to want someone that works hard and is successful? Gage appears to be working just as hard as Jeff. He's not lying around eating Bon bons and doing lunch like a real house wife.

[–] Kompressor_Fan 8 years ago

That's a very good way of putting it. Gage is an ambitious person. I think he would rise up in the management structure of any organization you put him in. Ambitious and successful people usually like to settle down with people who think the way they do. I couldn't imagine someone like that settling for, say, a poor drunk that wanted to lay around in bed all day.

[–] Poetist 8 years ago

Is it gold digging to want someone that works hard and is successful? Gage appears to be working just as hard as Jeff.

Appears to be. Yet, Jeff catches him in his slip ups. I don't see Jeff doing that to Jenny, who actually works.

[–] LoBo_77018 8 years ago

Plenty of the early seasons were Jeff jumping on Jenny.

[–] mckjay13 8 years ago

Is it gold digging to want someone that works hard and is successful?

Just because someone is ambitious and works hard doesn't negate gold digging?

As I noted, when Gage was pressured to express what he "loved" about Jeff, all he could reduce Jeff to was material worth. To be honest, I don't think Jeff minds. Beyond his relationship with Gage, he has serious issues with trying to use his wealth and resources to control people.

[–] Poetist 8 years ago

As I noted, when Gage was pressured to express what he "loved" about Jeff, all he could reduce Jeff to was material worth. To be honest, I don't think Jeff minds. Beyond his relationship with Gage, he has serious issues with trying to use his wealth and resources to control people.

So true on all points.

I specifically remember a statement by Ryan, when he talked about dating Jeff. He recalled a time when they were in the tub and Jeff pulled out a wad of cash and started counting it.

[–] LoBo_77018 8 years ago

I guess my definition of a gold digger differs. Gage works hard. He's not a bimbo looking to catch a rich guy and bleed him for all he is worth. I couldn't see him on one of those house wife shows.