He wanted to have children, and she agreed on one condition: she didn’t want becoming a mother to mean abandoning the career she had built. Her husband agreed and promised that he would be the one to stay home and take care of the babies while she continued working.
But after their twins were born, the agreement changed. Just a few weeks later, he told her that he had been thinking and that it would be best for her to quit her job because “she was now a mother”. The problem wasn’t just that he was breaking his promise: she earned almost twice as much as he did, and leaving her job would also significantly affect the family’s income.
So she decided to respond by following his own logic. If he wanted her to give up her career to stay home, he would have to get a job that brought in as much as both of their salaries combined. Only then would she be willing to consider it.
The discussion revealed something much bigger than who would change diapers or stay home with the children. She had agreed to start a family trusting that they would share the responsibilities, but once the babies arrived, he expected her career to be the one that had to be sacrificed.
