The Five Mistakes Married Women Make
ANNE BORDEN, MOTHER OF two, wasn't particularly concerned in 1999 when her husband suggested she become the family's sole breadwinner. As a corporate executive, she earned a salary of $200,000-plus — more than enough for the Seattle-based family to live on comfortably.
There was more money: Her husband of four years had just cashed in several million dollars worth of Microsoft (MSFT) stock options. That windfall would go into savings, they decided, and the family would live off of Borden's paychecks.
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