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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a SAHM mom to a high earner (whom I married when we were in college) but it was a total fluke. I dated lots of men who never had high earning potential and was even engaged to one of them.

I never wanted to be a SAHM but then health issues made working really hard for me, and DH never wanted to be a big law partner, but he found that the work really suits his abilities.

I am so glad I didn't try to marry for money. My husband is awesome. [/quote]

I’m sorry you married a lawyer. Him being wealthy is hardly a shock. Most lawyers are in it for the money, let’s be real. You would have known early own if he was planning to be a hair shirt environmental or law enforcement lawyer, and I’m sure you would have bailed. [/quote]

Are you under the impression that most lawyers earn lots of money? They typically don’t. [b]Median is like 120. [/b]Solid but that’s about it. DH and I knew this when he applied to law school so we definitely didn’t imagine he would ever hit his current salary (575). Plus, he started in 2009, right as all my friends were losing jobs and offers. He didn’t go to a top law school so he was just hoping for a decent-paying job.

Your comment is just obnoxious so I probably shoot just ignore it but I do think that my experience shows that it’s all just luck unless you’re born into wealth.

Also I was (or am, I suppose) a lawyer too so you should feel at least as sorry for my husband.  [/quote]

This is freaking tone deaf. First off, your median includes those hair shirt mission lawyers, public defenders, and DA.

Second, that’s more then a pediatrician earns.

Finally, all those “poor” big law refugees going Fed end up at non supv GS15, hardly a teachers salary.

You KNEW that marrying lawyer had a median chance of being quite comfortable, and good chance of being more. [/quote]

First, we married when he was in undergrad, before he had even decided to go to law school. Second, I was a prosecutor and then a public defender. Those were my attorney peers, not big law. So of course median includes the salary I made. This is not news to me. Third, if somebody is marrying for money, it’s a terrible idea to pick a spouse who is in school to get a job where half the graduates make less than 120K. To me that’s marrying for stability, but the kind of money the OP is talking about.

So if you are hell bent on proving that I married for money you can just take a break from the internet because it’s not going to happen. [/quote]

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