would be to hide (or lock into a trust, or hand over to a trustworthy business manager, or whatever) most of your windfall, and show enough to look moderately prosperous. That should discourage the golddiggers, without alienating women who rightly want to know they won't have to support you and any. Your economic situation has been feast or famine, so you've been seeing the worst of female human behavior in the quest for security, without seeing the balanced responses in between. Trust me, there are. So don't go assuming you have to become totally cynical and take an arm GD unless that's what you want.