What do women do when the men in their lives feel inferior?
This post is shared with Every Woman’s Blog by Mannie. The author wishes to remain anonymous for good reasons and will only be known as the pseudonym above.
In today’s world, many women have shown their capabilities in the workforce. Many reputable companies employ women as part of their top and middle management team and these women have definitely earned these positions through their hard work to prove themselves. Now that women are amongst the equals with their male counterparts, I find that many men in the management team feel a certain level of resentment towards these women.
This is not as assumption. I’ve seen with my own eyes the many incidences where men back stab their women counterparts although the ladies have done nothing wrong apart from performing at their jobs and being looked up to by others. I take these negative actions by the men as jealousy and envy as women start to dominate the corporate world.
What’s more disturbing than these men at work are the men in the private lives of such women may also tend to feel some resentment for their corporate success. I think there’s some feeling of inferiority complex when their girlfriensd or wives are high ranked executives who make more money than many men, themselves included.
How does a woman in this situation continue to lead a happy life with a man who feels inferior next to her? Anyone has some great insights to share on what to do to help the relationship? This is more pressing than to deal with the pressure of those other men at the same work place, although it would be nice too to have that part of the situation sorted out. But I guess we can’t solve every problem that exists, especially if it’s not our own problem but someone else’s personal issues.
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This post has 5 comments
March 2nd, 2009
i know what you mean. i was back-stabbed by a male manager who was highly incompetent for the position he held. at that time, i was a senior manager. he did everything within his powers to attack me and in the end, the CEO was kind of taken in by him. i left the company but now, after about 8 months since the incident, he was let off by the company due to his incompetency and i wished i had stayed longer to see this.
as for relationships, i was in one. but since i am a little hard-headed in many sense, i couldn’t care less of what my ex thought of me. too bad for the insecurities as i didn’t have time to tend to him like a child. he needed to grow up and take it as a positive point. i have since found another man who didn’t have any insecurities issue and was perfectly comfortable with any arrangements, without taking advantage of me.
i guess a woman should just do what she has to do within her means and limitations and not bother too much about what men think of her. life is short and a woman should be comfortable in her own skin while remain happy with life. negative energy should all be thrown further away.
March 2nd, 2009
It is all about love and balance. Do you love yourself more than you love him? How you answer that question will make or break your relationship.
In the end, it is about what you want versus what you need.There is always the compromise road to travel and if this road is non existent, then you may have to separate and venture out bravely into the unknowns .
You may find that the happiness or Utopia you seek can be very elusive.
Everything done in moderation’s is good for mankind but not all things are good if done in excess/extreme.
March 13th, 2009
Laura 1318 – can you just clarify what you meant by your comments?
Personally, I don’t think compromise comes into it.
Love is about spurring one another on and owning one another’s dreams and ambitions as if they were your own. If my husband gets the new job which excites him and gives him new opportunities, then I’m as happy as he is about it, because we’re in it together. And I know that he feels the same in return, because he loves me, but also because who he is isn’t defined by the world saying men should be more successful than women.
In fact he’s always saying that he wants me to earn more money than him, at least once – perhaps for the novelty of being a kept man!
March 30th, 2009
Hi urban chic,
There come’s a time when a woman has to decide which is more important to her ,her relationship or her career?
Marriage is about relationships and private life’s versus career. It is about the right ingredients that will make a happy and fulfilled marriage.
No two people are alike and what more when they are of different sex. To expect another to think like us is very idealistic.What is meat for one maybe poison to another.
If you are married to a man who has an inferiority complex about your superior abilities, then you either need to learn to live with it or let him go.
June 21st, 2010
My husband left a good paying job to start a taxi business and be his own boss, however things did not go right with the business and he quit it and got employed as a low level educator at a college. By then I got a promotion and am now earning twice morethan him. this seems to have bruised his ego as he always mentions that are earn more than him whenever there is a misunderstanding or arguments. He has also tried to kill himself twice because of this and does not want to go for counselling. i have tried to talk to him about it and also involved our Church minister but it does not help. he is mostly unhappy and very consious about it. What can i do about this