OPINION | Dating someone out of your financial league – is there a happy ending?
It’s a tale that’s as old as time: penniless woman meets wealthy man, they fall in love, and the rest, as they say, is history.
What happens when it comes to dividing the household expenses? Or when one person in the relationship is expected to support the other’s financially challenged family members or dependants?These are the kinds of situations that can arise if one person in a relationship earns significantly more than the other.
In some cases, especially in more traditional heterosexual relationships, the man can start to feel insecure and emasculated when his partner outearns him, which may result in poor behaviour.The root of this behaviour might not be immediately obvious as it is often disguised in the form of another argument or issue, but it is often the underlying problem.
“Ask yourself if it is realistic to split expenses 50/50, when one earns double what the other earns." She says:
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