Trading and Marriage Don't Mix???

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If you aren't making lots of money and spending it on her, she will resent the hell out of you. She will particularly resent you if she is out there working hard while you sit at home trading. This is true even if your trading is neting more money than she earns.
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This comment is 100% true. You hit the nail on the head perfectly. Must just be human nature, or i should say, in a womans DNA, maybe cause of the saying "the man should be out working and providing for the household. Takes a special woman to be able to deal with this i think.
 
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Personal experience. However, I am not a good trader yet.

Last winter she went out worked a traditional job and made less money than I did trading. She was pregnant at the time. I returned to my usual job in the spring; at the time of my return to my usual job she was 6 months pregnant. While trading, I paid for all living expenses except food, and currently pay for everything. She at the time only paid for food. In the end, I had saved about $5000, and she had paid $5000 towards the cost of her violin. I thought this was more than equitable, but she resented the hell out of me for sitting at home and trading.

I discovered this summer while her mom was visting from Russia, that her Mom was also very angry with me. i.e. How dare I send my pregnant wife out to work while I sit at home and trade.

Now, I work full-time and trade part-time.
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Maybe your with the wrong woman, no offense. Your making money/saving 5k, while she goes out and spends it, doesn't sound fair.
Im fortunate that i have someone that supports and understands what im trying to accomplish. Although i think that resentment creeps in there once and awhile though, lol. Only human nature. As long as it doesn't last too long, im good.
 
Quote from SimpleTrades:

I thought this was more than equitable, but she resented the hell out of me for sitting at home and trading.

I discovered this summer while her mom was visting from Russia, that her Mom was also very angry with me. i.e. How dare I send my pregnant wife out to work while I sit at home and trade.
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Their resentment comes from thinking that trading is so easy. Tell them to try it and see how "easy" it is.
 
Marriage is like a mutual fund that is both back-loaded, front-loaded, and has an ongoing management expense ratio. More than fifty percent of the time you own this long-only fund in a downward trend.

.... but I still love her and my new baby despite all of this.
 
I think trading and most people dont mix.

I mean how do relate with with non trader friends who earn average wage that you just lost say 30K yesterday because you had a bad day in the markets.

They just dont get it. No one does except other traders. Everyone else will think you are gambling or crazy or in cloud cuckoo land.
 
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Forgive him. He's "special".
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The number itself invokes powerful tides of solipsistic apophenia within jinxu.

Behold: <i>27</i>

it beckons you to your wife
 
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The number itself invokes powerful tides of solipsistic apophenia within jinxu.

Behold: <i>27</i>

it beckons you to your wife
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As a matter of fact, my fiance birthday is on Oct 27th. Mine is on July 27th. Separated there are 93 days between the two dates. Funny you should bring that up. Fate or coincidence. It doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is I'm profitable and you're not.
 
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