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I make 5 times more than my SO and I can realistically have 3/4 families if I wanted. I proposed multiple times my SO to work part time and spend more time at

I make 5 times more than my SO and I can realistically have 3/4 families if I wanted. I proposed multiple times my SO to work part time and spend more time at home and have children and she has 0 intentions of giving up a single dime of her independence.

Tadpole9181 1y ago
Is that how you proposed it?
- epolanski 1y ago
  It is a bit more complicated, but long story short she works in a bank and leaves the house at 7 am and is back at 7.30 pm which makes it very difficult to have a life like that, she's always tired and stressed, let alone children. I see her situation as a blocker, but other than proposing her to move part time I don't know what to do really.
dehugger 1y ago
Good for her, I wouldn't want to be beholden to someone else either.
- epolanski 1y ago
  I wasn't implying it was bad, just saying that it ain't as simple as "once men could feed a family of four alone". Even if you do, women have progressed past that point.
- redeeman 1y ago
  thats a very ugly way to look at eachother as a couple.
qwerpy 1y ago
I had a similar financial situation. Difference is we already had two kids. My wife gladly gave up her career to be a stay at home mom. She’s still independent, though. The “contract” is that I make the money, she takes care of home stuff and kids, and she gets to do whatever else she wants. If our situations were reversed and she was the one making crazy tech money, I’d happily be a stay at home dad.