Who's the breadwinner in your household?

Gloomendoom

Faith177 wrote: »

I was the main breadwinner till OH got promoted in August

Why the sad face? Surely you've both got more money now.

victory

I don't eat bread:rotfl:

Idiophreak

My wife overtook me in earnings for the first time in September and lit a fire under me - resigned last week and start a new job next month - and will get my "primary breadwinner" status back

Kaz2904

I am. I've always earned more than DH. Not that it matters because it all goes in one pot. We used to argue about money when we were skint and paying out almost as much as we earned. His friend suggested to him that we should split everything 50/50 to make it fair so he had some money left from his wages. He was cheesed off when I agreed to it and said he would be £180 short per month (of the bills).
It took him a long time to reconcile the fact that he was never going to have the same disposable income as his friend who lived with his mum and had no financial responsibilities and we had a mortgage and a child and paid as much childcare as we did on our mortgage :eek:!

LannieDuck

I am (female). OH is currently a SAHD. But we may switch around in the future. We both earn a similar wage, but his industry is pretty unstable whilst I have a stable job very close to where we live, hence me being the one to stay in work for now.

katiejones

I work, he's a househusband (his words). Married, 2 children at home x

System

He is. I tried going out to work a couple of times but it didnt work out.

mysk_girl

Hubby earns more than me. But my income is no insignificant in our finances. I, however, an the bread maker :-) one way of ensuring we keep our costs down?

inkie

It's switched around for us. Girst DH, then me, and back to him. It makes no difference as we have joint finances and see things as ours any way.

Squidgy66

I'm recently married and my wife had to give up work due to ill health during our engagement about 18 months ago. She's better now after a series of operations, but is now unable to work due my step son being recently being diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and is not able to continue mainstream school.

I rent a dinky little cardboard box and work in London and commute on most of my rest days to Northern Ireland where we are in the process of buying my wife's (council) house. My wife is currently applying to work from home as a Cambridge Diet consultant. Hopefully this will come through as it's far from easy running two households and forking out for flights, etc on the financial front.

It sounds like utter madness, but works on some weird level. The old saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder is certainly true.