HM comes in many flavors... needful emotional black holes, always demanding things their way, always complaining, a lot of HM women are there for the long haul and not simply gold diggersA friend of mine had a "high maintenance" wife. As soon as his business went bankrupt, she was out the door, filing for divorce, and out looking for the next sucker.
The woman in the article is sticking with her man, and working out how to keep going on just her income. That is not "high maintenance".
HM comes in many flavors... needful emotional black holes, always demanding things their way, always complaining, a lot of HM women are there for the long haul and not simply gold diggers