The Budgeting Babe » love http://thebudgetingbabe.com A personal finance blog for career minded women with small budgets and big dreams. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:01:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Relationships and Money http://thebudgetingbabe.com/2011/05/03/relationships-and-money/ http://thebudgetingbabe.com/2011/05/03/relationships-and-money/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 14:06:46 +0000 The Budgeting Babe http://thebudgetingbabe.com/?p=1040 So I realize after writing about my wonderful job-seeking-but-out-of-work-man-friend that I probably need to write the article I’ve been very much putting off writing for many months now: relationships and money when the woman is the bread winner. It feels so personal, which is why I have been beating around the bush. But it’s also [...]

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So I realize after writing about my wonderful job-seeking-but-out-of-work-man-friend that I probably need to write the article I’ve been very much putting off writing for many months now: relationships and money when the woman is the bread winner. It feels so personal, which is why I have been beating around the bush. But it’s also so top of mind that I’m finding it hard to write anything else. So I have to start working on it.

It’s going to take me a while to write it, because I will have to dig really deep and be brutally honest about a lot of things. So bear with me for a little bit while I’m writing/avoiding it. In the meantime, maybe you guys can actually motivate me to get this into production. Let me ask you: who is the breadwinner in your household? How does that make you feel? What do you think are the expectations the main earner has to fulfill in the mind of the lower-earner? What do you think are the expectations the lower-earner must fulfill in the mind of the higher earner? Are these roles at all dictated or differentiated by gender? What strategies do you employ so that you and your partner continue to work as a team, no matter the earning/gender roles?

Thanks, as always, for your insight. I really, really look forward to your input on this one.

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