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When your partner's financial success threatens your sense of self

My wife makes three times what I make and I know I should be happy for us, but I feel emasculated every time she pays for dinner or talks about her work success.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional gender roles around earning power can create shame and inadequacy even in loving relationships.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and money — what wealth does to selfhood?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.