[Dr. Sivana]

Very few married people have the luxury to let mom stay home and raise the kids like they did when I grew up in the 1960s and 70s.

I make only an average salary, and we paid for three private adoptions, and we get by. No vacations, smaller house, worse neighborhood, no fine dining, old cars. That also includes two extended periods of unemployment (which wiped out savings). I am also working on the assumption that a stock trader who is any good makes an above average salary, and that most women are hypergametic and have a husband who makes at least as much on average.

But yes, better with mom than not with mom.

[woodbutcher1963]

Yes, she makes more than her husband.

[steve86]

Embarrassed that I had completely forgotten the world ‘hypergamy’ and had to ask Perplexity for a rundown on it.

Please do take a short vacation to Show Low and let me know if it would be a good place to retire.