Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, having a doctor father was certainly a nice thing to have. I noticed the doctors tended to have the quintessential upper middle class lifestyle that people imagined of the 50s, with wives who didn't work and a nice house and private schools for the children and nice trips. All very nice and traditional. And because the wives didn't work or were known as not needing to have to work, the cliche of the spoiled doctor's wife did emerge, somewhat unfairly. I do remember petty people making implications about my mother that I greatly resented.
Today it seems like most doctors are married to other doctors. The doctor's wife cliche is no more, thankfully.
I'm the PP who posted about how we moved to the south, and the cliche is very much alive here. I moved from DC where everyone we knew had peer partnerships in their marriages (at least education and income potential, if not actual income). Down here, the male doctors all have sahms, and their redeeming features are being blond and "really nice". I was just marveling with a friend (also from DC) that the "queen bee" mom at our school, who runs all the charity events and just seems to run everything and people cower in fear of.... was an unemployed event planner with a 2 year associates degree before she met her DH. It's bizarre to live in a place where people put so much emphasis on, well, being a doctor's wife.
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