how much money did Paul McCartney have to pay the unidexter?

you do realize how much he has left right?

Call it a learning experience..nobody knows how much relationships actually cost in the end..Relationships are more meaningful than one night stands

Like that matters.
I could understand such a payoff if she was around when he created new music. Assuming he wrote anything while with her then maybe a percentage of what that generated or would by estimates. However for a few years of not having to do much, get a major boost in your name with the public and only having done what she did... Makes me think that yes he should give up support for the child and then a nominal amount to her along with a swift kick in her cooter.

meaningful in what way? to who?

relationships for the most part are about nothing but emotional co-dependence... with girls using sex to get "love"... and guys using "love" to get sex and as a survival mechanism, we all pretend that everyone has nothing but pure, selfless and noble intentions in the relationship and the world is made of rainbows and cotton candy. in the meantime, the girl stops sucking cock and starts to work full time, trying to mold the guy into her idea of what he wanted him to be and into her idea of a father and from day one and he spends his time split between denial, compromising, being irritated about it or avoiding her.

as someone who spent many years with multiple girlfriends living in 5 different apartments that i rented and being free to spend time with any one of them, when I felt like it... and then being married 7 years to a totally beautiful model who i thought was "the one"... i fucked up. i was never happier during that period when i got who i wanted, when i wanted, how i wanted and NEVER had to deal with drama, arguments about money, about what car i want to buy next, about the future or about why i won't wear the fucking shirt her mother gave me.

get married if you want kids or if you are just too ugly or socially retarded to pull some ass occasionally....

otherwise, there is absolutely no reason to be married and no benefit to the guy in being married.

Paul definitely isn't a typical male. He could afford basically any woman, but he's always been a one woman kind of guy.

I get what you were trying to say, and while I don't necessarily disagree with all of it I must say... you seriously can't see where a solid relationship is more meaningful than one night stands?

Please.

To who? Actually I would hazard a pretty good guess that most people on the planet prefer having a real relationship as opposed to bed-hopping with an endless parade of strangers. Not all, certainly... but most.

Do relationships suck a lot of the time? Hell yes. I'm not disputing that at all. But having done my fair share of one nighters in the past I'd have to say that I prefer something real and lasting.

Not to the tune of 50 million dollars though. McCartney is a target, life is a crapshoot, and he drew what looked in the beginning like a winning ticket but she turned out to be a life-sucking shrew.

It can happen to the best of us.

Marriage is bad business if you ask me.

"meaningful" is subjective right? i can wipe my ass with a canvas, frame it and throw it up on the wall in an art museum and people can spend the next 1000 years analyzing it and finding "meaning" in it. in fact, people do that very thing.

i have probably a unique view on relationships and its this...

we lie. we are selfish. everything we do and everything we are is centered on selfish needs. we do a very funny thing as a society... we NEVER accuse a volunteer who helps a homeless person as being selfish.... but the fact is that the motivation most often is selfish. its about how it makes them feel.. it makes them feel good. it makes them feel like they are making a difference... it makes them feel a sense of purpose and so on. i am not saying its a bad thing at all... i'm just saying that our motivation in everything is selfish

relationships are also about selfish needs. usually emotional needs. relationships are not accidents... we seek out certain people who can fulfill whatever needs we have... whether its the need to recreate our childhood home by finding someone like our mother whether that person is hyper-loving, abusive or whatever.. or the woman who continually seeks out guys who beat the shit out of her... those needs vary from person to person. but in the same way that we hold someone up as a hero for charging a machine gun nest in world war 2 without ever once stopping to ask "was he crazy" "was he a psychopath" "was he just suicidal" etc... we view relationships and marriage in the same way. we are trained to spend 3 months salary on a huge diamond, have the biggest wedding possible in the biggest church, buy a house right away etc etc etc... but few people really stop to ask themselves "what will make me happy" as they get sucked into this blackhole of an existence.

my point was more that this "meaningful" relationship (whatever that might mean to someone) comes with a ton of compromises and sacrifices as well... and unless you want children and a family, the costs of that "meaningful" relationship is usually greater than the rewards even if we are afraid to admit it to ourselves, our families and our friends.

what are divorce rates in the US now... ? 50% within 7 years?

thats an awful lot of "meaningful" relationships imploding everyday. maybe i'm not entirely wrong?