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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a former private school teacher, now doing something else. I only took two years off to sah, but I have always been a very low earner. I'm also a frugal diy type of person, my job provides us with health insurance, and I have always been very helpful to my dh's career, managing all kid responsibilities so he was free to work long hours when he needed to to advance his career (he has much more flexibility now). My feeling is that income is only a part of finances for a couple. How you spend and how you save matter just as much. And of course that is only the financial part of a marriage. There is so much more to it. [/quote]

You are right!  Sitting on the back-end of our careers, you can look back and realize it's about partnership.  In my marriage, I earned more before kids, then DH earned more but worked for himself. I'm not back to working full time and I provide HC for the family and he earns more. I do think its easier to "ramp up" your career later in life if you had some professional experience early on.  But, women can enter the workforce in all sorts of interesting ways. [/quote]

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