So my gf have been offered a job as a supervisor at some place. If she chooses to accept, she'll make 5 times my salary. She's really bright and probably just as many times smarter than I am. Has anyone else had such an experience of being so emasculated? How did you cope?
Why would you feel emasculated by your girlfriend making more money than you? Making money has not been the province of the male alone for a long time.
Actually I just started a new job. It's better than my last, I was real proud of it and then my gf got offered a far better one LOL. Good for her though. I guess the better paying job and much higher position isn't the only thing about being emasculated. Even before, she's always been the smarter out of the two of us and the more vocal one during social functions. She's also the dominant type, the career driven types. My friends tell me I need to step it up when I'm with her, but you can't really control her type. Just go with it. Then I told my friends about this and they're like daaamn. But to be fair, she's far smarter and more successful than almost all of my friends anyway. The bright side is that she can buy me more stuff now Can't post pics, she knows I live on CF and there's a good probability of her finding out because I go to her place and get on CF a lot.
Looks like you need to break up with her. If you want to be the more successful one, then you'll never be happy with her. Find a loser woman to be with.
Sorry to sound harsh buddy but its 2011, grow the hell up and realize that women are just as capable as you of making a living.
I think pretty much all the women I've dated were all more successful, career wise. Not that I'm a loser or anything, I think I'm doing quite well for myself. I guess I grew up in an environment of mostly men being the provider and all that. But this one is way up there though. I feel a little left out when I go to her social functions (which is not often).
People who advance professionally also tend to be more physically attractive and socially charismatic, so in a purely superficial sense you shouldn't be emasculated at all.
