MatureDJ
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I was reading this, and it got me interested:
slate.com

Dear Care and Feeding: We’ve Been Telling Our Kids That Mom and Dad Earn “About the Same.” We Don’t.
Why are you living this way? Who’s making you?
The advice column author decided to use stock photos of a Chad and a woman that is most definitely not a Stacy - and perhaps had unconsciously internalized the idea that any man that is loafing in life by being a low-earning musician, but that is married to a high-earning corporate woman, must have other Sexual Market Value attributes (i.e., physical attractiveness, JBW, etc.).My husband and I have been happily married for 15 years, and I am confident that we will remain so. Our children are 12 and 14, both girls.
When they ask questions about money, we’ve always said that we make “about the same” or that perhaps Mom makes “a bit more, but money isn’t everything.” But the reality is that my husband has a fun, engaging, and low-paying job as a busy local musician—work he loves—while I have a stressful, demanding, and much (much) better-paying job in corporate management, which is tolerable on a good day and allows us to live a nice life but isn’t “fun” in any way no matter how we spin it.