re: #249 HappyWarrior

Money is power. Status derives from money (and other things.) A man whose wife out-earns him loses some of his power in a traditional sense.
Now, if you have a good marriage and a practical outlook, more family money is going to be a good thing, but abusive men in particular use money to keep their wife or girlfriend from leaving.
I recall hearing an interview with a counselor who spent a lot of time helping women understand that they’d actually be better off financially without their abusive guy.