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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes I've gotten caught in conversations where wives complain about their DHs professionally (and once where a DH complained about his wife professionally). It's all kinds of awkward and there's nothing a stranger/casual friend can say.

I'm in law, so I always here some variation of -- I married him expecting he'd make biglaw partner and he didn't; I married him expecting that he'd get a biglaw job and now I realize he works for Joe Schmoe & Associates not bc he wants to but bc that's all his T4 degree pedigree gets him - I wish he had been honest; or I never pushed him for partnership but I married him expecting at least 8 yrs of biglaw money that we'd use to pay down/off a house and he "burnt out" in 2 yrs and is now happy in a 120k gov't job -- this isn't what I signed up for to be living out in Lorton.[/quote]
Too bad that the man was the plan.  :D [/quote]

Lol -- well yes that's what I want to say, and then I bite my tongue. Reality is the man was a plan for all these women, and then when they got the man and he was a lawyer, they assumed they were set. So there is shock and disappointment when there were expecting their man to make 250k as an associate and $1+ million as a partner and he ends up making $120k in the gov't and all the dreams of living in Manhattan or Park Slope (I'm in NYC) and lunching with the ladies all day are shattered and they're stuck out in Uniondale and turns out the wife ALSO has to deal with the LIRR commute and hold down a 40 hr week job.[/quote]

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