Is it bad to say to dp that I'll always work

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So having a light-hearted convo with dp and I said even if you earnt a million pound a year I'd still work for my own financial security, esteem, etc. He thinks if he earnt that amount I'd be silly to still work earning 1/35th of what he does . I explained that if he upped and left me, died, got ill and couldn't work what then? I think I'm being practical and sensible and he thinks I'm like one of those disaster preppers, preparing for his dimise! So am I sensible or bloody mad? Light-hearted because this scenario will never happen to me/us unfortunately, but also if it did, I would still work but only very part time!

Also I said to him if the situation was reversed would you still work? He said no. so I went through the list of what if I died, left you, got too ill to work, etc . And he just looked at me like

In my experience women worry more than men! Whenever I bring up worst case scenario with DP he starts going into stats of that actually happening and tells me there's no reason not to be optimistic

You're sensible.

You're not married and would have no rights to his money if he died, you split up or whatever,

I think you're absolutely right, OP, for all the reasons you give. Security but I also love my job and it has been invaluable for me mentally.

You should have asked him what would he do if you refused to support his lifestyle if you earned a million.

I’m with you.

He has no legal ties to you, so you need to be self-sufficient.

I’m married and would still work, regardless of my husband’s income. Would hate to be dependent on a man.

If I won the lottery/DH earnt £1 million I'd quit work asap.
However, DH says he'd stay at work p/t or he'd be bored.

Fatted - haha I didn't think of that! I'd definitely not give him a penny of my cool million!
although he is very generous and just assumed I'd never have to work again so that's very sweet! When we first started dating 12ish years ago I was broke but wouldn't accept his money, so he said he'd change up my penny change jar for me and the next day turned up with £100 and said there was loads of pound coins in there. He told me a few months later that actually it only had £3.45 in it!