Money and work

Earnings gaps, relocation, careers, and who is expected to give up what.

She makes three times my salary and now wants me to move. How do this?

We met three times through family and things are moving fast. She works in tech and makes 45 LPA while my government job pays 15 LPA. Her father asked if I can take a transfer to h

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11 Sep

She makes three times my salary and her parents want me to move. What do I say?

We met four times and the families are already talking about the reception hall. She works in tech and makes 42 LPA while my firm pays 14. Her father told me yesterday that since h

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11 Sep

She earns more and now my parents want us to wait a year before the wedding?

We got roka'd last month and her company just transferred her to the head office with a thirty percent hike. My mother is saying it looks bad if the wife earns more right away and

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19 Aug

She earns double and says I have to move cities. What do I do?

We got engaged last month and now she wants me to quit my job here and find something in her city before the wedding in December. My salary is forty thousand and hers is nearly a l

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19 Aug

Marriage means I have to relocate and leave my job. How do I think about it?

His work is not movable and mine technically is, so the assumption is that I move. Nobody has been unkind about it. It just got decided without anyone actually asking me.

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7 Aug

I earn more than my partner and both families keep bringing it up. What do I do?

It genuinely does not bother either of us. It seems to bother everyone else. His mother has mentioned it twice and my father has asked whether he will "catch up". I am worried the

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7 Aug