Is it wrong to feel emasculated because my girlfriend just got her salary offer, and it is almost 50% more than what I make now? I'm feeling very, very inadequate.
While I understand the masculine impulse to be the provider, having been a poor graduate student the past couple of years has more or less forced me to get over it. My current partner makes, quite literally, four times what I make in a given year. My monthly paycheck is what ze makes in a week. Ze buys me metrocards, drinks in bars, etc, and only expects I do the laundry in return (well, basically, the financials are more complicated than that
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