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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
Point the laser-like focus you would have applied to ?nishing that box of Otter Pops toward the things that really make you happy: carpentry, writing people’s names on grains of rice down at the farmers’ market, becoming a math teacher.
Expertise is an aphrodisiac, too. Expertise is excellent bait—take it from a ?erce, margin-dwelling writer. Successful women can’t resist the lure of vast knowledge combined with ?nely honed skill. And once they’re hooked, there’s nothing left to do but ?llet and fry ’em.
I advise you to hang in there. You can’t go back: That’s like ?ying coach after sitting in ?rst class. Put your goddamn pants back on (there’s already a guy walking around the farmers’ market without pants, anyway), grab that beautiful bull, and see if your nuts can handle the ride for eight seconds—or 80 years.
Dean Chandler is a freelance writer and Tango contributing editor.
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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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