Would you date a woman who earns considerably more than you?

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I'm going to disagree here a little bit. A lot of Slavic countries definetly have a thing of the woman as mother, and there is quite a lot of female superiority complex going on. It's split between the catholic slavic countries and orthodox countries with the catholic countries actually being like Iloveyourvibes describing. Really, I **** you not. The Orthodox countries have a bit more bluster going on, but the 'real men' are still controlled by their wives.

Latin cultures can be similar. Patriarchal in public, matriarchal in private. Generally speaking Irish couples are more "equal" in that sense, though Ireland in my humble is slightly more matriarchal in culture.

It's quite common to see women in the country that I am talking about throw a bit of an angry strop and power walk away. The man will then look horrified and concerned and then run after her to 'calm her down' and apologize for bad behaviour.

I've had that a few times. When I was in my twenties yep I'd run after all sorry etc and sooner or later another strop would kick off. Rinse and repeat. I learned in my 30's not to do this. Indeed I have to say doing the complete opposite and continuing on ignoring any such childish tantrum tactics "worked" far better. Like multiples better. It nipped that as a tactic in the bud. And somewhat sad to say I learned that the more willing I was to walk away, the less emotionally invested I was, the less hassle I got and the more attention. In very crass terms; the fewer fcuks I gave the more fcuks I tended to get. Which I also have to admit made me too cynical for too long.

I've very rarely had that public meltdown and flouncing off with Irish women come to think of it. They're less publicly dramatic. To be fair though it happened rarely enough overall. I suppose because the type is not my type and wouldn't get much beyond the first night out kinda thing - and it's very easy to spot the "princesses".

Plus while there are some cultural differences going on there are also a lot of stereotypes, many which people often feel they have to live up to. The least likely I've known to pull that nonsense were an Italian, a Spaniard and a Ukrainian(though the latter did expect me to pay for everything in public. Privately no, very equal on that score, but publicly her money was hers, my money was "ours").