re: Single Life Is The Best Life

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Anybody disagree?

At the minimum, it's a 15% payraise.

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My wife makes more than me, so no.

In my experience it seems people who glorify being single have a deeply misguided idea of what being in a relationship is supposed to be.

You partner up with or get married to a man or a woman because you love them and want to spend the rest of your life with them. Full stop. Usually that's because they make you happy, or they make you a better person.

My wife levels me out, much like I level her out. Without her to put things in perspective I'd be chasing my every impulse, likely bumming from city to city with no real ambition. If she was single, and I can't say this for certain, but she'd probably still be back in Louisiana, never seeing the upside to taking a chance and moving somewhere else just for the change of scenery. She grounds me. I like to think that I encourage her to let loose a little bit.

Obviously money plays a role in every marriage, but as long as you two are on the same page about where you want your finances to go, they should mean very little in regards to how fulfilled you are in your marriage.