What if you both had a great job, made the same amount of money, and then decided to have a family and you stayed home while he went to work to provide the income? What if you had to give up your job to move to another country for your mate with little chances of ever getting into your old well-paying job?
What if it were your brother? Would you expect him to ask you to go dutch in expensive places when he knows you can hardly afford a pair of socks? Would you have difficulty letting him provide for your living even when you are unable to for good reasons, knowing that you'd do the same for him on the spot?
And then imagine a relationship with someone whom you know you love till the end of time, and by whose side you'd stand with a smile on your face through poverty, pestilence and World War III, and who feels the same about you. Can you see "who's making more money" being an issue between partners in such a relationship?
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