“I am proud of my financial responsibilities and it is something that I’ve always prioritised,” she added.

When it comes to finding a partner, we will all inevitably have specific qualities that we’re looking for, and being financially responsible might be one of them (especially if you have one eye on the future). “As women have gained financial independence, they have also gained confidence,” says Charlotte Ball, co-founder of dating and matchmaking service Bond The Agency.

The old stereotype for heterosexual relationships, of course, is that men might feel threatened, even emasculated, by a woman who out-earns them; a 2019 study by the University of Bath delved into this phenomenon, and found that when women made more than 40% of a joint household income, their male partners became “increasingly uncomfortable” and stressed out. Indeed, some responses to @spreadsheetshan’s original post, suggesting that she would attract men with so-called “feminine energy” who were “looking to ‘mooch’ off” her, as she put it in her Buzzfeed interview, show that the age-old preconceptions about who should be the breadwinner in a relationship are still alive and well.

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