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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you know that when they say "no" there is the unspoken proviso, "but you have to make more than I do".[/quote]

Also not true.  Sorry you are jaded.[/quote]

Nope. It is true. That's [b]why marriages where she makes more than him are more likely to end in divorce than when he makes more than her[/b].[/quote]

You are trying to draw a simple conclusion to a complicated issue (reasons for divorce). Even if divorce rates are higher where the woman earns more that doesn't mean she had an unspoken proviso that her husband must earn X. [/quote]

It is simple. Women don't want to marry a guy who makes less than them, and if they do marry a guy who makes less, they are more likely to pull the plug on the marriage. You just don't like this simple and obvious conclusion because it makes women sound bad.[/quote]

I see you cut out part of my response, so I'll say it again

[u][b]Women who are financially secure on their own are less likely to put up with abuse, addiction and adultery (the three main reasons for divorce). That doesn't mean they need their spouse to out earn them.[/b][/u]

I am financially secure on my own.  I did not/do not have a salary requirement for my husband.  At times he has out earned me, but for the past three years, and for the foreseeable future, I out earn him.  It doesn't matter to my relationship.  I do not think less of him because I have a higher salary.   My marriage is not any more likely to end in divorce than if our earnings were reversed.  Why?  Because we do not (have addiction, abuse or adultery issues.  If any of those issues arose, I do not have as much incentive to stay married because again, I am financially secure on my own.

Spew whatever non-facts you want, but you do not speak for most marriages, especially in the DC metro area where many women are educated with good careers. [/quote]

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