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Dating & Relationships

Dating Above You
The Forgotten Talent
By: Hunt Ethridge
The era of the man being the breadwinner and the woman staying home to raise the kids has
been over for a while now.  There are many reasons for this.  First off, a single income does
go
as far as it used to.  Previously, a single income, even at a blue-color job, would allow you to buy a
house, have a car or two and make it unnecessary for your wife to work.
Nowadays, we almost laugh at the quaintness of that.  It sure isn’t possible these days!
Another reason, obviously, is that dynamic isn’t cool to today’s women.  Granted many women
not what’s
today love to be able to be a stay-at-home-mom, but that’s because it’s their
expected of them.  But one of the main reasons is that women are far outpacing men in higher
learning.  The last year that more men graduated college than women was 1982.
And the gap is widening every year.  What this signifies is that there simply won’t be the same
gender ratio of “breadwinners” that there were in decades past.  Why this is happening is an article
for another day.  But one thing that it does indicate is that there are more and more women
“above” you than ever before.
What is
why should I care?

behavior and

Heteronormative behavior is acting
and behaving in ways that are “normal”
for your gender.  For instance, dressing
your boys in blue and girls in pink is
heteronormative behavior.   These
behaviors are changing at all times, so
there is nothing static.   In fact, the
example that I just gave was
100 years ago.

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