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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never really "dated around", but the general recommendation I gave to my single friends is that the men's salary should not be lower than 80% of her base salary. [/quote]

Interesting.  My recommendation to my single friends was to focus on their own careers and not rely on a man to provide for them.   [/quote]

Marrying a guy who makes less than you, as the top poster suggested, is not in anyway asking the man to provide for the woman.  It is merely asking the man to provide for himself or carry close to half the load financially.

I made 1/3 more than my husband did when we meet and then I put myself through 3 years of grad school, fir which I paid out of my own pocket (no debt). The result was that my starting salary after grad school would be about twice what my DH made.  It was a huge mistake not to care what he made.  He was careless with money, and when we separated (for infidelity, which he had been doing unbeknownst to me for our entire relationship and thus was unrelated to finances), he did not contribute anywhere close to half neither in terms of finances nor in terms of parenting, which of course negatively affected my own earning power.

Not making enough money was a proxy for not being an adult and not working as hard as I did. [/quote]

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