If marriage were a competitive sport with one competitor being challenged by another to prove who is more qualified, skilled or valuable - then we would be justly engaged in a debate on this topic. BUT - marriage is not a game, not a sport, not a competition. It is a union - one in which each member contributes 100% to the whole. It is much like our relationship with Christ. I give 100% of my all and He gives 100% of His all. Christ is not weighing the contributions in the balance - Christ's vs. mine! (Heaven forbid.) In marriage we are to emulate Christ's relationship with the church or the individual. We are not to measure contributions - by any standard - monetary, skill, energy, time, effort, or otherwise. Matters such as who makes more or less are of managerial consequence only when competition is not a factor. If my husband is giving 100% of his all and brings any monetary contribution to the household income then his contribution would never be less than mine. (OH - and vice versa, of course) Sharon Cohen By these fruits