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Breadwinner Wives and the Men They Marry: How to Have a Successful Marriage While Outearning Your Husband

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As the husband of a breadwinner wife, I approached this book with some concern. But the author seems to have talked to real people, and she addresses real-world issues for people like me. She also provides some sound advice for making sure that relationships and homelife remain happy.

it's amazing that 29% of all married women in America make more than their husbands -- and no one has written this book before now! Randi Minetor not only provides an overview of the ways in which women are affected when they are the primary breadwinners-she also writes positively about men, and how men can enjoy these relationships when they go into them with open minds. There's so much here to help us figure out how to share housework, finances and child care--I felt so much better after reading this! Now I know how to start to break my usual patterns and start building a real partnership with my husband.

Breadwinner Wives is just the book to save my marriage. Both my husband and I read it. It opened up a dialog between us for the first time in years. We love how easy it is to understand and plus there are real practical actions to take. Terrific insights.
Thank you Randi Minetor! (author)

...I found quite a few things to think about while reading this. Many of the guys I have dated make less than me, but (as the author points out) that doesn't make them losers. The author really makes you think about gender roles and gender bias and why women still define themselves through their husbands and consider themselves (and other women) failures if they're not married. Could I handle having to ask someone for money? Could I handle being the primary or sole breadwinner? Could I handle not being the primary care-giver for children? These things - and a few others - are things I really hadn't given a lot of thought to before, but will now.

This book is lame. And almost funny in its message of an unmarried woman is a failure. Chapter 14, Can You Marry a Man Who Makes Less?

I am still laughing at the description Mzzzz. Minetor gives at about how one might react to marrying a poorer man.

Whine, nag, moan, and groan.

This is "The Rules" - remember them? - and the only thing missing is how to get an Underachiever to get down on his knee and beg ya to marry him, as he holds out a Diamond Ring - hopefully bought from a pawn shop.