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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you had a spouse who made this much (and was very family-focused) would the numbers unnerve you? We live in a HCOL suburb, etc, with two kids who will go to college in 10 yrs. Maybe this is a money forum question but it feels more family-focused as I am now feeling nervous about DH/my choices...which have sometimes cropped up but to hear someone verbalise it made it hit home if that makes sense.

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If you are both working and you make at least as much as him, it’s at least a 250K household.  Assuming you are happy, it makes more sense to me that you would look for ways to make your 250K combined income work for you (consider your investments, a pre-paid plan for state college, if you had real estate or investment properties, that you live below means etc.)  than to risk rocking the boat and having to maintain two households on the same amount if this leads to someone being unhappy in the marriage.  I can tell you if my DH came home and said he was talking to his cousin and realized my six figure salary is too low despite it being double what I made when we started out and asked for me to look for a higher paying job, that would not go over well. [/quote]

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