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[quote=Anonymous]I wish we both made more money!  Or won the lottery.

I did actually go through a period when I was unhappy with the fact that my DH made very little money.  I was stupid and decided to work for a big law firm and he decided to go back to school to find something more interesting.  I was completely, utterly miserable at my soul-sucking job while he was happily taking classes in a field he loved.  He did work during school, but made very little (around $30k/year), so I felt trapped at the law firm until he was done with school.  Did I mention I hated the law firm job with the fire of a thousand suns?  When he finally was about to graduate, he thought about keeping the same low-paying job that he had during school because he liked it and I really did resent that because he wanted to stay in the area, in the same house, with the same expenses.  So it basically would have meant I was tethered to the firm forever.  Thank goodness he decided to take another position that paid enough so that I could quit my horrid job and go to a great government position.  Together, we now make about what we made when I was at the firm and he was at the low-paying job.  I honestly don't know if our marriage would have survived if he had insisted on taking the lower-paying job while expecting our joint income to remain the same.  We probably would have ended up divorced and/or I would have had a nervous breakdown.

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