aaa i see. It was another time back then
Yes it was. Not only that, my wife came from a family where her mother never worked outside the home and even in the home she had a live-in housekeeper to help with household chores and taking care of the kids. In those days, the man in the family was the bread winner. My mom didn't work either. She hung out by the pool all day.
Our parents didn't think it would work because they saw us as complete opposites and neither my wife nor I lived up to the ideal each of our parents had envisioned our partners to be. My mom thought my wife was far too quite and not assertive enough. My father-in-law thought I was after my wife's money and/or that she was pregnant and felt she had to marry me.
Our son was born almost two years after we married. My wife spent her small inheritance from her mother's estate before we married. What is interesting is that over the years, I was the one who inherited the most money. Although my parents weren't rich, I came from a wealthy extended family. One of the reasons I was attracted to my wife was because she was quite and not bitchy like my mom.