DesiPundit

MumbaiGirl contends that “the one who holds the purse strings or the earning power will always be the more powerful one in a relationship“. She shares her own experience to illustrate the issues that arise even when the earning-partner is the progressive sharing/caring type.

But due to a combination of circumstances, my own great failings and the difficulties of being in the UK, I haven’t been able to find work that I am capable of doing and that pays on a sustained basis. No matter how nice A is to me, and no matter how much patience he has and no matter how much support he gives me in helping me find my feet, my own sense of self-worth is often at rock bottom. It is a bitter pill to swallow, that an educated, intelligent woman like me, once praised by her teachers and expected to do great things, has to depend on someone else to survive.