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It’s Absurd If You Get Bothered By Your Significant Other Earning More Money

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David Hookstead Sports And Entertainment Editor
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I was involved in a massive debate the other day about whether or not people should be bothered if their significant other earns double or triple their salary.

The debate got heated very quickly and sides were drawn. I figured it’d be best to just throw it out to the people for a vote. Maybe my viewpoint, which we’ll get to in a moment, was in the minority.

The results of the poll were overwhelming, and 89 percent of people voted that they wouldn’t be bothered.

Here’s where I stand on this issue. I think you’d have to be a complete moron to be bothered by your significant other making more money. Look, I’m trying to marry a supermodel and models make tons of cash. Kendall Jenner is raking in north of $20 million a year right now. In what fantasy world would I be getting upset because my supermodel wife is making more cash than me?

I believe that’s what we call living the dream. I don’t care who paid for the mansion in the mountains or the house on the beach. It can either be me or my smoke show model/actress wife. I literally don’t even understand how anybody voted that they’d be bothered.

Look at it this way, would you be bothered if you won the lottery for a few million bucks? Of course not. Marrying a rich supermodel or actress is like winning the lottery on steroids because it’s actually cool.

Am I off base here? Am I missing something? The idea that I’d be bothered by my wife or girlfriend making way more money than me is insanity. Complete insanity. I live with a championship mentality, and those who voted that they’d be bothered do not have a championship mentality. It’d be like if a superstar wide receiver got upset because his team signed a Hall of Fame caliber quarterback who is a better player and makes more money. That would be ludicrous, although I’m sure it occasionally happens. That quarterback and receiver need to win games, and you don’t win games by getting offended when somebody gets a larger cut of the pie.

Feel free to let me know if I’m missing something here, but otherwise, I think this debate is over. The poll voted correctly.

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