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[quote=Anonymous]We are late 30's and have two ES aged kids in public school. We have no debt aside from our mortgage on our house, which is about $3200/month but only because its on a 15 year note. We own two cars that are in decent shape and have life left in them. We have $80k so far in each child's college fund. Retirement + other taxable investment accounts exceeds $1M. I grew up working class/middle class and I think we are in awesome shape.

But spouse is constantly stressed! His career has sort of leveled off - its fine, but he seems to be unable to break past his current salary range, no matter where he looks. His income is still impressive and more than enough (low 200's) but I guess he always imagined it would just keep going up up up. I don't think that's realistic for most people who also want work/life balance which he does. I work PT but he's pressuring me to go full time and I don't want to. I feel like we are in a great place of getting household chores done, having free time with the kids, etc. and I don't see any reason to rock the boat. If he wanted me to work more so he could work less, I could see that. But he doesn't. He just wants more money flowing into the bank accounts for some abstract reason. We are not trying to increase our lifestyle (he doesn't want this either) - he's just obsessed with watching the savings grow.

I'm not sure what my question is. I guess its why won't he just relax and enjoy his success? We're FINE!
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