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When Your Success Creates Tension in Your Marriage

My husband says he's fine with my success but I can feel his resentment every time I get promoted or make more money than him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement that should be celebrated becomes a source of marital conflict due to threatened traditional gender roles.

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