For Better or For Worse...Or for your Career?

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This is a question for Taurus women....

*In light of the recent news regarding the split between Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox...*

If you were the breadwinner in your marriage, and needed to work for a lengthy period of time that required you to be away from your husband and children...would you be able to do it?

(Your husband was unemployed, had a minor, an acute medical condition (not severe), and missed you terribly).

Would you divorce your spouse because he complained about wanting you to be home most of the time?

If a compromise couldn't be worked out...

What would you do?

Would you choose to 'downsize', re-arrange your finances and spend more time with your husband...

Or, would you choose to hold on to your material possessions (in fear of losing any financial security) keep working effortlessly to maintain them...and just lose the husband?

I'm curious to hear the responses.

(I know I said Bulls, but other signs are welcomed to post and join in ๐Ÿ™‚)

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whatโ€” Brian Austin Greene and Megan Fox split?? O___O noooo! they were so cute!

i am shocked. What's going on with the transits? First the Jennifer Garner/Ben Affleck split, then the Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale divorce too.

anyway for the OP question,

i just saw a video on this weirdly just this morning over this really career oriented woman who was making ALOT of money and MORE money than her spouse. If i find the video i'll post it.

well, she quit to stay home and it's difficult for her (as she's not used to it) and her husband was sitting next to her explaining too that they had to make do without her money because she made much more than him in money and benefits (health wise and other extras)

but they are TRYING hard.
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Depends on whether I actually enjoy working said job. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†


But really, what good would me coming back do to said family? My husband is unemployed and I need to be away because I'm working, not because I'm on a vacation drinking cocktails and fooling around. That hubby doesn't sound all too reasonable. He strikes me as someone who'd bitch and moan because I'm working too much, asking me to ditch my job and career to be home with him and if I actually did that, he'd bitch and moan because we're broke.
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I would accept the job. I love my family, but I would also feel that it was my divine right to protect them and provide them with shelter. If I stumble on finances, we ALL starve. I would ask my husband to accompany me...and to bring the children.

I would still downsize...so that this doesn't become a permanent arrangement. Make a little more, and just live slightly below our means. Some men (not all) tend to have big egos when women are the breadwinners. I would not want this to affect my marriage. When I'm not away, my entire time would be focus on my husband and children.

...But I can't help but to feel that little 'Taurus' in me would feel the urge to tell my husband to "Quit your bitchin, and get it together."
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Posted by duchesslibro
Agreed. I should add that I really can't relate to the original question. My husb is a very hardworking and ambitious Virgo Sun, Taurus Moon. The only thing that could stop him from working hard would be severe, debilitating illness.
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LOL.

This sounds like my work ethic.
Rain...no problem
Snow...no problem.

If you have idle time to think about getting to work.
You can utilize this time to figure out how to GET to work.
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Posted by Binota
As about Megan Fox.. that split up is the effect of Venus Retrograde.. There's a lot of more break up than usual this whole month. ๐Ÿ˜ (But worse than Mercury when it comes to unlucky moments..)

My Pluto is on 2dn house (exact opposite Sun in 8th house). So you know how much that role plays..

So my mind has a lot brainstorming as fear of unexpected financial loss.. Or that my husband or children has suddenly unexpected bad health that need to take care of (as for health payment). So I rather work hard to take care of family unless he has a job and I'll reduce the time for seeing family together. If not, then to freaky bad!! I work hard for the family!!

If it's only my husband (no children in which I'm planning to) with those condition that you have mentioned then I rather that he should find a job soon as possible.. The reason why is that because of my ex-virgo who turned out to be very spoiled brat that made me learned that I rather have a guy who should start finding job already and not hanging on my finances. I hate to be a motherly or fatherly towards others even that I rather not to make them spoiled unless they deserved to have something spoiled.

Men I sounds like Capricorn..
that was retrograde's fault?? ๐Ÿ˜•

i also saw that Megan and Brian have a little baby recently, still a baby, so i'm wondering if the problems were Always there....and they had a "save the marriage" baby, same with Gavin and Gwen Stefani. They had a baby recently (within the 2 years time frame) and if they are breaking up while they have little babies around, or little children, the problems are bigger than we thought.

I'm just recalling about real life when my relative's neighbors had a couple who had a little baby and two other children, and my relatives commented that "that was save the marriage" baby. And this couple really had problems. HUGE fights!! it was unbearable.

anyway, i would think that if the husband makes alot of money, then it should be good to stay home, HOWEVER if the woman/wife makes MORE money, I personally feel that she can't lose the INCOME because it is detrimental to their children's schooling and future. I mean what if the job the man has makes hardly anything? Minimum wage??
sure i've seen it happen with my own eyes, but truthfully, these folks are very very poor,living in a one