Chip Chick
A 34-year-old woman has been married to her husband for the last decade, and they have two children together.
For the majority of their relationship, her husband has always been the one who made the most money and supported them all financially.
Not too long ago, she completed some additional education in order to move forward in her own career, and because of that, her salary has really gone up.
She and her husband never sat down and had a conversation about how she would be making significantly more money since there wasn’t really a need for them to.
“The way we looked at it was we both were benefitting because it’s going into our household, and it gave us more room to accomplish things,” she explained.
So, her salary never became a problem until she spent time with her husband’s family to celebrate a birthday.
Her husband’s brothers are always making fun of one another, and at the birthday party, they started talking about careers.
One of her husband’s brothers turned around and asked her husband how it feels to no longer be the man of their household, and her husband was puzzled by that.
Her husband’s brother kept taking shots at him though and pressed her husband about how he can “sleep at night” while knowing that she’s the one outearning him now.
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