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“My success has become his failure.” these women whose husbands can’t bear to earn less than them

In a quarter of French couples, the woman earns more than the man. According to a recent study, households are more exposed to the “risk” of separation. The difficulty of talking about money between spouses, the feeling of inferiority of the lowest wage earner and, without a doubt, the weight of gender norms.

The scene happened ten years ago, but Garance (1) remembers it as if it were yesterday. “I can still see where we were sitting, me and him,” breathes this thirty-year-old Parisian in charge of digital strategy. He is her ex-husband, ten years older, whom she met at the age of 23 when he joined the company where she worked for ten years. “Not very ambitious, he liked to work short hours and less, with no desire to advance.” “No,” he recalls, “he made a good jump, up to 2,800 euros per month.”

Or 40 euros more than her husband at the time. 40 small euros, enough to make him and the whole structure of their relationship. “I tell him about my promotion, because it seemed crazy to me, and I I think something is breaking in him,” he describes. He immediately answered…

Source: Le Figaro

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