Re: Wife's Earnings
I have seen sooooo many times that families look for professional gals and like to know about their salary not that they want her to work afterwards BUT just to boast about it in their peer group. like I have liked falan Major's daughter for my son, she is a doctor. Or that Engr's daughter who is CA and working in American firm. So there is too much of show shaw factor too.
Moreover, ppl look for these designations for another reason too, which is, if the family itself has history of all professionals, they automatically tend to bring a professional to home. It is exactly sAme like a family that has all Quran Hafiz at home, they look for a gal who is Hafiz e Quran too. I have seen such families in real life. All of the Bahus were mashAllah Hafiz Quran just like all of their sons were. The bahus and sons married their kids to Hafiz Qurans'. That was their main requirement from any gal or boy.
Its better not to think that GREED is the only factor that is making them ask for your hand. You can test the person if he is only after your degree n thinking of you as a money machine or he really has some other reason behind it.
The most imp factor that one should see while deciding on a gal or boy is to look at the blood stream. thats what we call in our term Khaandani loug. May be you know what I mean but I will avoid to explain it here as may be, may be some ppl will get offended and most prolly the thread will take a new direction. But I am sure most of you know what i mean by good khaandan and good blood.