How does a high achieving woman create incredible stress?
Because they are constantly questioning you, hoping you say something they can become offended by. ;^)
Simple: Any high achievement includes stress or else everyone would do it.
There is no question that women cannot compartmentalize her feelings and emotions as well as a man does.
They invariably start treating their husband as another competitor to be defeated and even the smallest decision becomes a battle of wills that she cannot afford to lose.
Besides, having a high achieving woman in the house means most of one of your salaries is going to go for daycare so that strangers raise her kids while she is out achieving something worthless in comparison....
"How does a high achieving woman create incredible stress?"
Oh, let me count the ways:
1) They expect/demand higher income levels from the male to compete. That means you have to earn more, just to be worthy.
2) Their expectations for how an acceptable man should act have been driven through the roof by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to even Dr. Laura. An acceptable mae should be sensitive but strong, but able to compromise, a good earner with a lot of free time, with a lot of education who only wants 2.1 kids and already owns a house and has his act together, but is a bit of a pirate. No stress here.
3) Feminism has encroached even on relatively normal women. Those equality arguments are neveer ending.
Look, I have an accomplished sister who didn't marry till 50 and has no kids, I work under a bright bombshell VP who has cuckholded both her boss and her husband and has no kids. I went to Stanford and have seen other similar women.
I've been there, done that, with a string of girlfriends(one now a doctor, another a lawyer). Now I'm looking in the Ukraine.
Which is not to say male expectations aren't out of wack or I'm God's gift to women, but after a while you just learn from your mistakes and move on.