So, the dude who married the "smoking hot" girl got cheated on out of boredom? Perhaps making assumptions and expectations might not be the best way to lay the foundation for a good long term marriage....
If your friends are a reflection of you and looks are a deal breaker, you probably should not get upset when the kind of women they nab consider $ a deal breaker. Shallow people have shallow relationships, film at eleven. Not to belittle your friend's situation, as divorce is devastating, but I am guessing there is more to the story than you are dropping or you would not have deflected into this "reasonable expectations" arc of treating marriage like a business transaction. Khane is right; that fatalistic cynical view is a shitty way to live and people who marry later in life tend to have much more solid and fulfilling marriages.
If your friends are a reflection of you and looks are a deal breaker, you probably should not get upset when the kind of women they nab consider $ a deal breaker. Shallow people have shallow relationships, film at eleven. Not to belittle your friend's situation, as divorce is devastating, but I am guessing there is more to the story than you are dropping or you would not have deflected into this "reasonable expectations" arc of treating marriage like a business transaction. Khane is right; that fatalistic cynical view is a shitty way to live and people who marry later in life tend to have much more solid and fulfilling marriages.