My husband started making significantly more money than me this year and now he's making comments about 'his' money when we talk about purchases and I don't know if this is just adjustment stress or if our whole financial partnership is changing without me agreeing to it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Sudden changes in earning power can destabilize established financial relationships, requiring explicit renegotiation of implicit agreements.
“Where Are You with Money and power — who controls resource flows?”
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