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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother was incredibly successful professionally and out earned my father for sure (though he also did perfectly fine but did not make it as high up in the ranks of management as she did). My Dad did lead the management of the money though.

How has it impacted me- hm, I definitely always pictured myself in a management role given that was where I saw my mom all of my childhood. I manage the finances for our household, so maybe that’s an impact though I never thought of it stemming from that. But yeah I manage it all - budgets, investments, anything we do financially really. I have done this since my husband and I were in our early 20s and I got interested in personal finance and started reading.

I think one post asked so I’ll share what I read at the time to get started. From what I can remember - Your money or your life, the simple path to wealth by JL Collins, Millionaire teacher, at the time I also read a lot of Mr Money Mustache and though I’m not trying for “early retirement” now some of the things I learned from reading that over time on the power of saving and some frugality have been essential. Learning early that I could make a huge difference in how much wealth we build by increasing how much we save and invest using index funds has made a huge difference for our family. My husband and I aren’t as high of earners as my parents were (relative to the time) but we’ve been able to build wealth on those principals (and I’m not taking mr money mustache saving levels, we aren’t that frugal)[/quote]

I will add because I just saw the other posters comment about not seeing her mom much. While my mother was definitely a professional badass and made quite a bit of money, I didn’t feel like this at all. She was very present and though my dad was usually the first home and cooked dinner, she was home for dinner, at my events, incredibly active present loving mother. I’m not saying we can do it all, she didn’t put pressure on herself to be EVERYTHING - we did have nannies for after school but professional success doesn’t equal feeling neglected[/quote]

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