Where is the deduction that Loss Aversion doesn't apply to your partner? Your description of Loss Aversion is generic and can be applied to any "rational" being. How does your partner become immune to it? It seems your conclusion is inconsistent with the concept of Loss Aversion and that your are applying Loss Aversion in a way to advance insecurity.

What is your question? You gave 3 scenarios and asked analogues of the same question for each of them but the magnitude and context makes a big difference. I get this is marked as a rant, but it seems too incoherent to respond to. Also your last line seems completely out of place. Talking with some disillusionment about gaining wealth without earning it, but in the prior scenarios you talk...[More]

Wtf are you talking about? You are describing a CBS sitcom not real life. Are you talking about Kevin James in the King Of Queens?