Who's right, me or Mrs. Robb? [View All]

[Robb]

...And I realize the default answer is of course Mrs. Robb. :)

So here's the situation: after Mrs. Robb got her last promotion, we discussed it and agreed that I should quit my job and stay home, writing and taking care of home stuff (you know, laundry, dishes, shopping, dogs, dinner, packing her lunch, all those goodies). So I'm a house-husband, and have had no complaints about the quality of service in that regard.

Also salient: her promotion brought her to a salary level that was (wait for it) more than four times what I was making. She's doing very, very well as a bigwig.

She just returned from her annual "Chick Trip" with her dear girlfriends, she takes it every year. I don't know why I'm obsessing on it, but she bought a pair of arguably cool boots that would have taken me three or four days at my old job to earn.

Now. This morning she's feeling "concerned about the finances," and told me that since she's taking a dance class on Wednesday nights, I could "pick up a shift if I wanted to" at my old job. Because "it would be nice to have a little more money around, you could pick up other nights too."

Obviously I'm not totally against the idea of going back to waiting tables... it would suck, because it's a step backwards, but I'm not afraid of working. But I know that the house-husband stuff still needs to get done, and will still be my responsibility -- because she's got nowhere near the time to deal with it.

Am I a total jerk for thinking about the fact that if she put off one or two purchases like the boots each month, the net income result would be the same?