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How financial dependence erodes professional ambition

My husband makes three times what I do and keeps telling me I should just be happy with my job since we don't 'need' the money but I feel like I'm disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Economic security can paradoxically threaten psychological autonomy and identity.

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