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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I made 5x what my wife made for our entire marriage. Are you suggesting that I shouldn’t “subsidize” her retirement?  [/quote]
Did she have a couple of kids with someone else?[/quote]

Np here.  What difference would that make?  By the time retirement rolls around, presumably any kids are self-sufficient adults.   Op’s dh will have some money in his name, op will have money in her name.  I can’t imagine being married and thinking of our retirement funds as seperate assets.  That just doesn’t make sense, even when it’s a second marriage with a blended family.  [/quote]

This is what I don't get. I am not divorced but have outearned my DH for our entire marriage. So not only is our lifestyle funded more by me, but so are our retirement savings. By the time you retire hopefully you know this is going to be a long term relationship so the idea of subsidizing shouldn't be as big a deal as it might be earlier when you want to protect your assets. Maybe given the prenup OP is thinking this isn't a long term thing? But in that case she may be divorced before retirement, or not too long, after so that would limit the subsidies.[/quote]

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