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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Combined HHI is around $700k. My husband isn’t going to live a $450K lifestyle just for the privilege of “not caring” about my career. Adequate HHI means outsourcing a lot of the points of tension in a dual-income relationship. [/quote]

Sure..but your husband isn't high income..enough. Most couples fall in the middle and need dual incoms to live a "$700 K lifestyle". In that case, a woman's career matters. If your DH made 700K by himself this wouldn't matter.[/quote]

Unless he or the family wanted to live a $950K lifestyle. It’s all about how people want to live. Even in DC there are people who make it work on $450k if that’s how they want to live. [/quote]

Sure there’s lifestyle creep, but at a certain point if a family is comfortable priorities switch to other things rather than money. Private school is going to be a stretch still at $450k for two kids unless you want to cut back on other umc luxuries like travel.[/quote]

Which still concludes that at the top 2% by income for the country, men care about women's careers.

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Sorry you didn't marry rich enough.[/quote]

There isn’t rich enough for me to give up my career, I love what I do. I would quickly give up a husband who didn’t support it, though.[/quote]

What you don’t understand is at that high income level your husband supports whatever you want. You want to work, great. You want to do a hobby, great. You want to spend time with your children, great. But does he care what you do as long as you guys get along, no. [/quote]

Funny because both the founder of Facebook and George Clooney both speak publically about how important their wives careers are. They’d be surprised to find out some random internet man considers that a mark of low-income.

Clooney in particular had a fairly wide selection of attractive partners before marrying a human rights lawyer…[/quote]

Clooney got beauty and brains. If she was ugly as sin and not as exotic he won't look twice at her. Priscilla Chan got to Zuckerberg and an iron clad prenup before he hit it rich. There's history there. If Amal Clooney and Priscilla Chan decide to take a sabbatical for the next five years their husbands won't blink twice. Oh wait, note that Priscilla Chan is now a philanthropist and a "former pediatrician".  [/quote]

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Amal Clooney is gorgeous and a good twenty years younger than Clooney. No one ever talks about how much younger she is than him when discussing her brains. [/quote]

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