Men intimidated by RN salary?

My wife and I are both LPN's and she make more than me. She has been an LPN 2 years longer than me.. Her base without O/T is $37k and mine is $33k.... With all the O/T I make about what she does... I wish she was an RN or that I was.. I personally want to go to med schoo.. But we have a small child and the $$ would be too much..

Women who earns a lot more than men, wanted to date someone who is greater than them. I don't think I'm intimidated, but I know a lot women thinks that way.

I have, sadly, found this to be the case a couple of times. I'm a modern girl, I'm more than happy to pay my own way no matter who makes more, in fact I get itchy if dude insists on paying all the time for everything. But I have had it happen that I want to do something on the expensive side and am MORE than happy to pay for the whole thing, if it's not feasible for him to split it, and he gets snippy about it. I don't give a hoot how much money mister man makes, but I also don't want to be limited in what I'm able to do for fun if he's uncomfortable with me paying for it. Then it turns into a whole thing where it's really about how he's unhappy with his job, his whole life, blah blah I thought I'd be a bazillionaire rock star by now... yawn. I'm not your mom, it's not my problem.

I have never heard of men being intimidated by a Rn's salary.

But I have heard and seen friends experience a man intimidated by their salary. Men or women who are intimidated by someone elses salary have other issues they need to work out.

My hubby makes more than me but when he heard I wanted to go back to school and get my RN he said..great! When do you finish, so I know when I can retire.

My best friend has a masters degree and working on her PhD. She works in molecular science. Her hubby is a high school drop out who works in an auto parts store. (its not a sugar momma type thing). For the most part, he isn't at all intimidated that she makes several times what he does. She never rubs it in his face. But there are the rare occasions when he does make a comment that he feels less of a man/husband because she makes the majority of the money.

Yea, I remember reading stories about men who felt intimidated by their wives/girlfriends that made more, that the "man" should be the money maker. But I think as women are becoming more and more noticed and higher on the work chain, I think men are becoming less intimidated. Like some of the others have posted, they're happy about it. I dated a guy where I made more money, and he didn't mind at all - in fact...he took advantage of it. Needless to say, we're not together anymore!

But a lot of men get intimidated easily anyway, by any number of problems. I listen to some of the young guys at work and about. There are a lot of things that intimidate them. I am a golf instructor part time. I can beat a lot of men on the golf course. They get intimidated by that. I run Marathons, I can outrun a lot of men, they can be intimidated by that. Not all of them are but a significant percentage are I would say. maybe it is something in this Texas water

i'm sorry but you must not know many nurses

I don't know, I really am somewhat snobbish. I worked for it, I earned it, I totally have the right to be a snob, actually.

My Fiance and I joke around about my salary. He is slowly moving up in his company and I, as an RN, make a significant amount more than he does. He doesn't mind at all. He calls me his "sugar mama" (jokingly). He is proud of my accomplishments and encourages me.

I was working part time.
My husband didn't want me working, he wanted me to stay at home, but as he never seemed to have enough money I had to go out to work.
Then it was all my money paying for the household bills, including the childcare, but I wasn't allowed to go out with friends etc.
We've been divorced nearly twenty years - best day of my life.