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> Bill Gates negotiated into his marriage the right to take an annual beach house weekend with his ex-girlfriend.

What's that now?

Yeah. That's right. Source in this thread.

He also listed the pro's and con's of marriage in a whiteboard when he made the decision. (Nothing wrong with that. More people should do that)

Or perhaps she trusts him and Ann.

Source?

http://content.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1120657,00.html (1997, by Walter Isaacson)

" Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "

That seems somewhat alien to me. I'd expect some kind of relationship insecurity. This kind of reminds me of that series Succession, where one of the running themes is that the hyper-rich clan considers themselves fundamentally distinct from the regular people.