I don't think my husband or my daughter's boyfriend got that memo. (A week ago my daughter offered to work to provide for the both of them while he went to medical school. He's still pouting like a kicked puppy. "There is NO WAY you're going to provide for ME!")
Tell him to take it like the new man. :)
Your daughter wants to pay for a man she’s not married to go to medical school? Is she willing to accept that this might be a gift to him and that some other woman might end up a doctor’s wife?
Your daughter is absolutely insane if she thinks putting a guy through medical school without a lawyer-vouched contract between them is going to lead to anything but a kiss-off at the end. Unless, of course, she marries a lawyer who can sue the boxers off the guy and his trophy replacement for her, which would be a dandy idea for a teevee show, come to think of it. The young man is doing her a favour by saving her from a lifetime of heartache and denying her generous but lunatic offer.
An elderly lady patient of my sister the nurse recently opined that “At our age, dearie, all the men want is either a Nurse or a Purse.” I have found that over the years I could have married at least a dozen times if I had been willing to pay all the bills and let Junior sit at home, strum a guitar and Find Himself. I always told them to keep looking.
Your daughter needs to find a real man.
My wife runs the house and I pay all the bills. She likes it this way and I get to pretend I’m in charge.
My husband has never particularly cared if I work or not. I once asked him if he'd feel threatened if I made more money than him. When he stopped laughing (he has about a 20 year head start on me), he said, "More power to ya. I'd go fishing."