Discuss the merging of Love and Money in Moll Flanders

As I was reading this novel it became quite clear to me and actually began to bother me that everything I did was based on money. One problem, I had no idea the difference between a pound, a schilling, and a guinea. It really bothered me that every action was based on money. Marriages were based on money and how much "fortune" the other person would bring into the marriage and if that person lied they would both be "quite undone." True money does make the world go round and true it is hard to live with little or no money even today, but life is not just about money. Before Moll fell in love she would first do a bit of an investigation on the other's wealth and history of how he spent it. Money was somewhat of an issue to me when I was getting married, I wanted to be sure I was going to be financially stable, but I did not base all of my feelings on my husband's bank accounts. I understand that money does play a huge roll in everyones life, but should it have played this big of a roll? Then when money did fall into someones hands, they wasted it. Moll was so concerned with looking rich the money she had was never enough. Money isn't all there is in life. By basing their entire livelihood on money they missed out on a lot of what is actually important: love and relationships.