I’m thinking rationally here.
I’ve seen my friends and colleagues marry below them and the results are not pretty. I’m sure they’re fine, but looking in from my vantage point, I don’t see the upside. They are not getting richer despite the spouses’ imputed incomes.
I don’t want a divorcee who can’t make kids, is set in her ways, and is bossy. But if I work as a house-husband with income to go along, then I’m willing to please my “employer” and earn my salary. If the “employer” can’t pay, then she’s useless to me.
I can offer someone 20 years my junior a fairly good lifestyle. And as CAr said, she can offer her youth and beauty in exchange. Fair trade.
Pretty much all my peers have gone the way of Val Kilmer. I’m still the Tom Cruise. So, yeah, I think I’m a catch.
The Myers-Briggs test doesn’t really apply to me. I’m kinda extroverted (I will talk and make friends with all my neighbors), I make decisions quickly, but that doesn’t mean I’m impatient and rash (e.g. never get upset with restaurant service). I actually have supreme patience and I’ve practiced being very calm and zen. One can change to be what one wants to be.
My real personality is closer to INTP, I think. But I can adjust pretty easily. That’s why I believe I’d do well with the daughter of a tiger mom. A strong person who can deal with the realities of the world.[/quote]
If you want to be a househusband, then you have to give something in return…like children, your youth, beauty, and you have to do lots of housework! You’re too old to give them your youth and beauty, and unless you’re a hermaphrodite (with a complete set of female reproductive organs), you probably don’t have a uterus. And doing housework and all of the related domestic chores for just two people (no kids) doesn’t really justify having a SAH spouse. Sorry, brian. 😉
