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Do You Make More Money Than Him?
Living with a woman breadwinner. Dean Chandler says buck up and do it!
by Dean Chandler
The words hit you like a platinum ?st. Your legs go limp, your throat tightens, your spine begins to decompose. You look at your beautiful woman. The soft candlelight has thrown her angelic features into near-sinister shadow. In what some experts call a “moment of clarity,” you realize she is more successful than you are.
This is what some other experts call a “paradigm shift.”
Success is a particular thing. Like shaved heads, bikinis, and cowboy shirts, it’s perfect on some people, unsettling on others. On men, success is an aphrodisiac. It attracts women like sample sales or free martinis. This is a 150-proof cultural truth.
For women, though, success is dif?cult to carry off. It will certainly repel the weak men of the world. Worn too brazenly, it can send even the strongest hunter in search of smaller game.
Of course, this isn’t an absolute. Nothing in love is. I mean, look at Julia Roberts and Danny Whatever-His-Name-Is, and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles’s dad, and now you, the man with the more-successful love. One could consider you fellas exceptions to the rule. You guys could start a club where you sit around in your boxers all day, watch Saved by the Bell reruns, and eat popsicles.
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1 Najumulhassan // Dec 28, 2007 at 12:41 am
I want a Real Beauty and Rich Women
2 sezgy // Dec 21, 2007 at 4:26 pm
i need a honesty girl
3 rajesh // Nov 9, 2007 at 3:04 am
i want rich girl
4 secret // Feb 2, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Wow. Sexist much? Haven’t we moved past this sort of thinking, that men should feel threatened by women who are successful in their careers? Publishing this sort of story reinforces gender-role stereotypes, and the end advice still implies that a man needs to have cojones to handle a successful woman. Ugh.
5 Anonymous // Jan 25, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I am a widow who was left after 27 years of marrige and along illness ..comfortably well off. I have other women friends who are either widowed or seperated that are in the same situation.
I have always worked part time and lucky me when I want doing what I want whith whom I want.
I have found that when I started dating that this information was something to keep to my self as along as I could .
I Work from home..when i work .But eventuly the clues come out.and evan if a man is finacely doing well above the avergae I have found that it does become a turn off.
If they feel there Biz is’nt doing well suddenly I can tell they are suddenly incomfortable.
I have been with men that like the fact that I am finacialy secure alittle to much some …younger men who really don’t care.
But it is definetly a problem.
I am a women with a strong sence of self and always have been no matter what and I think if a man does too it should not be such an issue.
BUT IT IS .
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