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Reply to "if one spouse makes substantially more than the other and you both work"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answers to this entirely depend on your salary levels - in particular, yours. Do you make 70k? Or 250k? Savings also come into play.[/quote] I make $220k and we have healthy savings. He grew up with a lot of financial insecurity (immigrant from a war torn country where his family lost everything) so has outsized views of what is "necessary" to feel secure. I really am interested in how other couples have this dynamic play out - we need to work through our misalignment likely with the help of a therapist, I'm mainly just curious right now how others do or don't find a sustainable dynamic. [/quote]
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