Raise your hand if you're a woman who out-earns her husband

[Anonymous]

Does this bother you, or him?

[Anonymous]

It does not bother me. I don’t really think about it. It bothers him because he thinks it bothers me, no matter what I say to him.

I’m considering quitting though, in which case he will be the breadwinner again.

[Anonymous]

I do, and it doesn’t bother him. I wish we generally had a little higher HHI but it does not particularly bother me that I make more. I would love to make even more!

[Anonymous]

Right now I out-earn him but it hasn't always been this way. We think of it as a life-long partnership and we will probably break even over the course of that.

[Anonymous]

I do, and make enough that we don’t need another income so he is SAH, which he thinks is fab. I’m a bit self-conscious about it.

[Anonymous]

I have a trust fund that has about 30-40 times what we earn in a year. So he outearns me, but it’s sort of irrelevant and doesn’t bother either of us.

[Anonymous]

I did when I decided to be a SAHM. I mean, we decided

[Anonymous]

I do and my DH loves that. We both are driven and ambitious but not about money. He’s proud of me (and I’m proud of him).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a trust fund that has about 30-40 times what we earn in a year. So he outearns me, but it’s sort of irrelevant and doesn’t bother either of us.

oh my. are you famous!?

[Anonymous]

I do! Doesn’t bother either of us.

[Anonymous]

I do. It bothers me only because he earns zero, DC is expensive, and I've been covering his ass for years now.

[Anonymous]

Me! I make about 50K more than my husband. It doesn't bother me.

[Anonymous]

This again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right now I out-earn him but it hasn't always been this way. We think of it as a life-long partnership and we will probably break even over the course of that.

Same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a trust fund that has about 30-40 times what we earn in a year. So he outearns me, but it’s sort of irrelevant and doesn’t bother either of us.

oh my. are you famous!?

If they earn 100,000 then the trust fund has $3 or $4 million…neither pp nor her husband seem like they are particularly ambitious (wonder why?) so I doubt it’s that large.