My partner makes three times what I make but works 70-hour weeks and resents that I have more free time, while I resent that their career always takes priority in our decisions, and we can't talk about either money or time without it becoming about the other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trapped in a cycle where financial contribution and temporal freedom are being used to keep score in ways that satisfy neither.
“Where Are You with Money and time — the exchange at the heart of work?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.