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Earning Less Than Your Woman
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Posted about 1 year ago Alright 'fess up.. are you comfortable with your woman earning more than you do? |
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| Posted about 1 year ago The more the better - I'd love to have the financial burden lifted off of me. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago How do ladies feel about this? Would they rather have the financial burden? OR would you like to earn more than your man but not by a huge gap? And ladies are you ready to take on most of the financial responsibilities or are you only willing to pay slightly more? |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Will said: Yeah but are you willing to take on the domestic burden? Or do you expect the wife to plan dinner every night? |
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| Posted about 1 year ago When you're a dink you can just eat out every night. ;) |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Kaamna said: I love to cook and I do 99% of the cooking |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Will said: pssh.. cooking is easy. what about the laundry, and the grocery shopping, and the birthday reminders, and the maintaining relationships.. i have yet to find a man that can take on that burden. |
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| Posted 5 months ago maybe i am wrong, but i feel resentful at times for earning the higher of the income and I also am in such demand I can work 2-3 jobs for extra income ...mainly because he cannot contribute to the savings, vacations, etc,,so i feel it is my extra jobs/finances that support these areas... where is my friend Linny? |
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| Posted 5 months ago My husband has already announced that when we have kids HE will stay at home, I myself am suspicious and think he just wants to stay home to play video games and work on his music (which he has amazing talent and is still big in his country)... He would really not care if I earned more, just as long as we both have jobs, clothes on our backs, food in our fridge, and a roof over our heads with a means of transportation and a little saved away for those 'rainy days', he is content. "The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough."-Randy Pausch |
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| Posted 5 months ago I don't think it matters who makes the most money, as long as everyone is taken care of. I have been the sole income in the family for two husbands. I found it amazing that people would say to me that my husbands were lazy bums because they stayed at home and let me support them. These same people would say that housewives were underappreciated for all the hard, unpaid work that they did and should be respected. So, I always used to remind them, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If I stay home, I should be respected for that very hard job. If he stays home, he deserves the same respect, provided he's doing the same hard job. So, I coined a new term....housespouse. When people asked me what my husband did, I told them he was a housespouse. |
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| Posted 4 months ago dont bother me a bit. Quite a few women ive dated have made more (some of them a LOT more) than me. One was a Jet mechanic, another was a biochemist, and another was a computer engineer. ha ha. What is it with me dating women smarter than me? (grin) far as the cooking.... i did 99.9% of the cooking in my last relationship... hopefully ill be dating a woman that can cook this time... at least we can tag team or pitch hit for each other. ha ha.
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| Posted 2 months ago I guess I'm lucky in that such things never come up between my boyfriend and I. We make sure the bills get paid, which we do evenly, we both take care of the house, the chores, and all of life together. When it comes to saving money, we have separate accounts so we can keep track of things easier. I think being petty about it makes things complicated in my situation, so we don't worry about anything. Bills are paid, house and chores are taken care of. That is all that needs to be worried about. Insanitek: Powered by Creative Minds. |
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| Posted 2 months ago Will says ... The more the better - I'd love to have the financial burden lifted off of me. Hear, hear! Now, see, this is what I was saying more than 30 years ago, and people would look at me like I had two heads. But I have never thought it was fair for the man to have to have all of one burden and for the woman to have all of another burden. If all of the burdens are shared fairly, it's easier on everyone. No man should have to be chained to the desk day and night, and no woman should have a scrub brush surgically attached to her hand! A man speaks! |
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| Posted 2 months ago awinhold says ... How do ladies feel about this? Would they rather have the financial burden? OR would you like to earn more than your man but not by a huge gap? And ladies are you ready to take on most of the financial responsibilities or are you only willing to pay slightly more? I've always been big on percentages in the interest of fairness. I think that the one making the most money should pay that percentage of the bills, and the one making the least should pay that percentage. Household chores should be shared in the same way. The one with the most time at home does the most, etc. Splitting the bills in half when you don't earn the same amount of money only benefits one of you. It may sound equal, but it isn't. And it doesn't matter which one of you earns more. I have had two husbands that I quite happily let stay home whilst I was the sole supporter. In the 70's, when I did it the first time, I was a radical. By the end of the nineties, when I did it the second time, the other blokes were envious of my man. I think we're ready to shed the traditional ideas. |
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| Posted 2 months ago distantwizard says ... When you're a dink you can just eat out every night. ;) cheeky cat! ;-) |
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| Posted 2 months ago Will says ...
all the good ones are taken, aren't they??? LOL ( don't worry, so am I) |
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| Posted 2 months ago Archangel says ...
And he's a Harley man, too, ladies.....grab him while you can!!! |