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[quote=Anonymous]I did. I was raised MC/UMC two college educated working parents, one a high level role in govt, nothing fancy but each sibling received a used first car, all went to college no student loans, we also all had PT jobs in college and summer so we weren’t silver spoon kids. He was raised LMC/MC, experienced some food insecurity growing up which I found out later with his food habits, had some students loans, and kept a clunker on the road with no kidding a wrench a rope and some duct tape. We met in college, and we’re intellectual peers. But he did not have the drive or the grit to succeed in corporate, just wasn’t raised with of that social context or know how. Whereas I figured it out. It was tough during the early years of our marriage when I was excelling and he was not. We eventually switched roles and he was a SAHD for a while which he is great at. We have it figured out now and there’s balance in the household contributions of time, energy. But I didn’t know going into the marriage that I would have to be the breadwinner, we married in our twenties/early thirties when we were still individual contributors. We worked through it but it was not easy. There’s ego, competition, a lot of trauma that needs to be worked out when the dynamics shift like that. As I said, we made it through, but we definitely would not have the lifestyle that we live it weren’t for my earnings. So, I’m the one carrying that stress.  [/quote]

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