When I say insurance, I don’t mean it narrowly in the financial sense. I mean it in the “I’ll keep being a part of the relationship even if for some reason you’re less able to deliver on your part of it”, in this case it could be the non-working spouse not leaving when the breadwinner stops winning bread, or whoever sticking around even when you are ill for a prolonged period and much less fun.
When I say insurance, I don’t mean it narrowly in the financial sense. I mean it in the “I’ll keep being a part of the relationship even if for some reason you’re less able to deliver on your part of it”, in this case it could be the non-working spouse not leaving when the breadwinner stops winning bread, or whoever sticking around even when you are ill for a prolonged period and much less fun.