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post 1626109623 12-20-2020, 12:34 PM
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Thoughts on your gf/wife earning more than you? (Srs)

Another thread made me think of this, gf would be making a decent amount more than me. We haven’t talked about it, but both know what we want to do career wise. I personally don’t see or have any issues with it at all
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Originally Posted By hoganrulz⏩
Not my cup of tea.
Why though? And would your opinion change if you were dating before starting your careers?
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post 1626110523 12-20-2020, 12:44 PM
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post 1626111193 12-20-2020, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted By justgenetics⏩
Why though? And would your opinion change if you were dating before starting your careers?
I'm old fashioned.

Nah, statistics show that men earn more than women & that men are happier when they out earn their woman. The only way I can see this not being the case is if she out earns you but you have the potential to out earn her eventually.
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post 1626111443 12-20-2020, 12:53 PM
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I believe it increases divorce rates. We can pretend that we have "evolved" past our ancestors biology, but we haven't.
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post 1626112113 12-20-2020, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted By hoganrulz⏩
I'm old fashioned.

Nah, statistics show that men earn more than women & that men are happier when they out earn their woman. The only way I can see this not being the case is if she out earns you but you have the potential to out earn her eventually.
Oh I haven’t looked into any stats or anything. Depending where we live, our income could be about equal but the most likely scenario is she out earns me by 20-40k
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Well, i make more than my girlfriend in the form of W-2 income. But her dad is worth $60-70M and she gets passive income from him since all of the children are 1% shareholders in his Company's. So she ends up making way more than me, but doesn't make me feel any different since she's given more money than me but I earn more than her.
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It’s fine if you’re both fairly successful and she just happens to out earn you

Or if you have a respectable career that just happens to not be lucrative

If she’s successful and you’re a loser it’ll likely cause issues down the road
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Originally Posted By justgenetics⏩
Oh I haven’t looked into any stats or anything. Depending where we live, our income could be about equal but the most likely scenario is she out earns me by 20-40k
Gotta look at it practical scenarios if not statistical, how ****ed would you be if she stopped working because of children? What would the relationship be like under the duress of children with both of you working because you can't take the hit of her not working? Is this a limiting factor in your decision to have children?
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post 1626113103 12-20-2020, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted By justgenetics⏩
Oh I haven’t looked into any stats or anything. Depending where we live, our income could be about equal but the most likely scenario is she out earns me by 20-40k
Unless you’re earning lots of money, it would be an issue for me.
Say she’s earning 100k and you’re doing 60k without any real path to 100k+, then yeah, no thanks Jeff.
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post 1626113303 12-20-2020, 01:13 PM
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If my Girlfriend/Wife earned more than me, I would buy a Ouija board and summon the most vicious, cruel hearted Demon in existence to transport Her to a realm outside of the laws of space/time and physics, where she would be endlessly tortured for infinite eternities, with many foul experiences and various nasty activities taking place. It's one thing to want equal pay, but to actually earn more than me would render me truly besmirched most indeed. Also I'd do it even if she earned less. However, if she earned nothing at all, I'd still do it.

JK, but seriously, nah who cares how much money a b1tch makes? As long as she buys tasty types of pizza and not foul pizza. It's one thing to enjoy Pizza Hut, but to have no understanding of the oven cookable Goodfellas brand, is unforgivable.
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Originally Posted By hoganrulz⏩
Gotta look at it practical scenarios if not statistical, how ****ed would you be if she stopped working because of children? What would the relationship be like under the duress of children with both of you working because you can't take the hit of her not working? Is this a limiting factor in your decision to have children?
I can say I definitely have not thought that far. In the best case scenario I’d be earning about 85k. We both want kids but haven’t talked about how many, I only want 2 and in that case I think it’d work out especially if I plan ahead and start saving beforehand as well as her.
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more than 90% of marriages where the woman starts earning more than the man end in divorce
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Originally Posted By justgenetics⏩
I can say I definitely have not thought that far. In the best case scenario I’d be earning about 85k. We both want kids but haven’t talked about how many, I only want 2 and in that case I think it’d work out especially if I plan ahead and start saving beforehand as well as her.
Well hey listen man, if you guys have a plan that you think would work, God bless.

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My two LTR girlfriends both made more than me and now my wife makes a little bit less than me. Money has never been an issue in any of the relationships. If you respect each other then it doesn't matter.
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Originally Posted By Silencespeaks⏩
No I would not like that.

Short term temporary is fine but not long term.
That's because you are a settler. You've settled for what you can get in life (horny dudes who need hole) and hoping one with money would settle for you.

If you were a go getter with goals or ambition, it would be the opposite.

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Would prefer it (srs).
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Originally Posted By ScramFranklin⏩
I believe it increases divorce rates. We can pretend that we have "evolved" past our ancestors biology, but we haven't.
It depends.

If you're still doing well yourself (like say you make 100k and she makes 150k) then I doubt it's much of an issue. When you see it become an issue is when the women realizes she married a loser and decides to level up to a non-loser (aka, she's making 150k but married some tradie husband who struggles to pull in 50-60k/year.

Basically if you're competent and have a good career yourself, I wouldn't worry if she's making more. It's mostly about being able to respect you than whether they make more than you or not.
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When I met my wife, she earned more than me. I started out-earning her within I think 3 or 4 years, it stayed that way for the next two decades and as of last year she finally started making a smidge more than me again.

IMO it's not particularly important if one earns more than the other, it's more about what you both bring to the table in terms of the relationship. That includes money but obviously there's many other factors.

I think the meme about not having her make more than you is because:

- having a time-intensive career (which goes with big money) is hard on relationships

- it's not great if the girl wears the pants, which may be more likely to happen with a driven career woman

- guys on this forum are horrifically insecure
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Why the **** would I care? That just means more money for the both of us?

I don't derive my sense of masculinity from how much $ I make and would feel zero sense of insecurity at her making more. I find it perplexing that people would want their sig other to make less than them just to stroke their own ego.
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I don't care, if she wants to leave one day in an attempt to level up she can fuk off, I won't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want to share a mortgage, I will be the sole owner of my house and my land so if she wakes up one day with different feelings and decided to leave, it wouldn't affect me.
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As long as both earn enough to easily provide for the family, it doesn't matter. But no way I would ever get myself into a position where I would have to justify what I do with my money because she is the main provider. That can only end in disaster.
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