Husbands are significantly less happy in their marriages, and more likely to contemplate divorce, when their wives take the lead in breadwinning.People like to feel important, I guess.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
An Interesting Marriage Factoid
This from Brian Wilson, lead author of the latest State of Our Unions report from the National Marriage Project:
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This has a chilling sound--and just as much so (at least to my ear) if you were to reverse the genders.
It is interesting to me in as much as it suggests a deep investment in "work" as the primary locus of meaning in one's life.
Yes, we have trouble finding meaning outside of work, and, even more narrowly, outside of earning money.
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