"Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven’t actually generated themselves."
- Marian KeyesMarian Keyes, an Irish author, explores relationships in her book "Why Did Rosie Die?" where one partner earns a lot more than the other. She investigates the ways in which relationship dynamics can be impacted by financial inequality. In order to demonstrate this idea, Keyes compares a household to…