Is it possible to successfully date outside socio-economic class?

Yes.

It worked for me.

I’ve dated a couple of peasants in the past, brightened up their drab existence, for a few hours at least.
Of course, they were just a toy to play with for me, utterly disposable, the lord giveth & the lor…summat like that.

Most times it just doesn’t click, things don’t fall into place.

I didn’t date but hung out platonically recently with someone who was on financial assistance. There were some limitations to what we could do together and I paid for a few things that I wanted to do with him. Our values and a lot of our interests were similar and we got along very well, but there would have been some long term problems to surmount if it had become romantic.

Middle-aged men look for disadvantaged young attractive women. There’s an industry for Americans looking for women in poor countries like the Philippines and Eastern Europe.

Love isn’t the primary motivation, though.

This isn’t dating, but my parents (and I) are friends with a single mom and her twin children and is a public school teacher. She supports the children entirely, who are about to go to college. Whenever her and my parents hang out, my parents almost always end up paying for things, but they don’t mind since they understand her situation. She at least “tries” to pay, but both of them understand the elephant in the room.

Possible, yes. But my guess is that the percentage of long term success is somewhat lower than otherwise.

Of course, there are exceptions and success stories. But on average, relationships between same social classes are more likely to succeed.

My wife was wealthier than I when we met.

But this didn’t result in the conflict a Flutherite might be programmed to expect. In fact the opposite occurred.

Because of her lifetime of liberal conditioning she holds fast to the idea that one’s political outlook should be based on one’s background or situation.

On the rare occasions that we do find ourselves in a political debate she sometimes insists that my conservative perspective is false simply because I’m not a millionaire.

I try to make her understand that like one’s mode of dress, one’s outlook should be based not on where one is but where they are headed.

I also try to get her to explain to me how to her idea that my, to her conflicting, place and mentality must be bogus. Certainly convictions that are shaped by more than this would be credible.

She also likes to cite my wealthy parents. Yet they came from little themselves.

I dated lawyers to manual laborers,. I’ve met upper class that are trashy & poor who are very classy. It’s interesting.

It happens all the time, and KNOWITALL got it right. I’ve been off the market for decades, so my personal testimony is far from current. But when I was in the dating pool, the opportunities were so frequent and abundant that issues of class and financial compatibility seemed irrelevant.