Does Your Wife Earn More Than You?
…that’s the TOI debate of the day.
Irrespective of our tall claims of gender equality, there’s an overwhelming belief in society that the man is the primary breadwinner and the woman the homemaker. This often leads to a major friction when the woman rakes in more moolah than the male. While we comfort ourselves that money has nothing to do with love, very often an imbalanced paycheck causes damage to a relationship. Is the income of your spouse actually that significant to make or mar your relationship? If you are a man, will you be affected if your wife earns more? If you’re a wife, would your respect for your man plunge if he earns less than you?
The point really isn’t about who earns more – the wife or the husband. What really matters is who spends more-on usually useless things. And that is something we all know, right?
Posted by Manish on April 6, 2009 in In Deshwa
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It does graze the male ego when the wifey earns more than him. But jokes apart, if one takes a look at most Indian homes, the mundane day to day expenses are from the husband’s account, while the moolah keeps piling in the wife’s account for the more expensive purchases. So my usual rant in my house is– who bought this fridge, this microwave, this cooler— me, of course! And who is paying for the house instalments?! Main! And as expected, the poor chap who pays for the daily daal-chaawal- aalu-pyaaz-dhaniya patta is never acknowledged!
Very true Anshu but manish is serving time woh toh na kamatha hai aur na khilatha hai sirf matar cheeltha hai aur bartan dhotha hai and still wants to be the king of the jungle ( I know I am dead in the water now )
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