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Ask Dr. Helen: When Wife Out-Earns Hubby

March 10, 2008 - 1:00 am - by Helen Smith
Jeff
2008-03-10 10:39:26

New York Magazine ran an interesting article on this subject a few years ago.

The title speaks for itself:

Alpha Women, Beta Men

Anna, a public-relations executive, saw her relationship with her Web-designer husband collapse as she became more and more successful and he floundered. In the last year of their marriage, she earned $270,000 while he brought in $16,000.

“He never spent money that wasn’t his in an extravagant way,” she says while taking therapeutic sips of a Sea Breeze at Tribeca Grill on a recent evening. “But by not helping, he was freeloading.”