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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it a big deal if your wife makes less than you? Do you expect her to take on more household responsibilities because of it? [/quote].

It sounds like no and yes.  I will add that they also probably expect that their jobs will always be treated as primary whenever there is a scheduling conflict and will be given considerably greater consideration if someone wants to move to another town/city/state/country.

I actually think this is the same when the genders are reversed.  The problem is not that women don't respect lower earning men, but that men don't actually take on the additional household responsibilities.[/quote]

+1  Or, if they do, they are perpetually (and vocally) unhappy about it.  There are exceptions, to be sure, but this has been my experience.  [/quote]

Or they don't do it well, or they outsource it. DH took on laundry as an area of the household for him to deal with the actual and mental labor of. Couple months later, he'd found a laundry service at a good price. Couple months after that, nagging him to deal with the laundry service company was on my plate. And of course he didn't take on some other area of household management since he'd gotten out of actually doing the work by outsourcing. [/quote]

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