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A comment on Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley. Parent comment

Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by sfifs on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:19PM (#18098189)
> That's a tough sell for any relationship, and if you ask me the real hero of this story is his partner who believed in him enough to support him all the way to the end.

I'm very surprised you feel that way. It's actually the other way around in my experience. I personally am and know many 30 something couples where one partner has a steady mid to high income job and the other partner is going for a moonshot starting up. It you can afford to support your partner taking a shot like that, why wouldn't you?

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Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by michael_storm on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:26PM (#18098211)
Because you’re sinking a huge amount of money into someone’s passion project, for which you may or may not have received equity before being broken up with. Being able to afford something is not a binary situation in which “yes” means you should do it unconditionally.
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Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by crazygringo on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:36PM (#18098404)
Wow... no. You're committed to a life with someone and want them to be happy because their happiness is your happiness. Money is way less important than being happy in life with someone.

But this is about marriages or similar commitment, not "before being broken up with", and also not "unconditional", you need to think it's good for your partner too.

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Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by zwkrt on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:31PM (#18098231)
It is possible to support a partner without treating them as an investment
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Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by sfifs on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:32PM (#18098238)
Hmm context matters I guess... folks I'm referring to have generally been together for a decade... So they may have a somewhat different take on relationship.
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Re:Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sens... by michael_storm on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:20PM (#18103247)
Replying to self: I meant “unconditionally” as in without consideration of other factors — not meaning to imply that conditions should be attached to the money.
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