Originally Posted by Conrad

I believe that quite often a stay-at-home spouse begins to undervalue the contributions made by the breadwinner.

Usually, coupled with this, the stay-at-home spouse overvalues their own contribution.

You see this issue discussed here many many times. Stay-at-home spouse on facebook, etc. Marriage is sexless, etc.

You would think the tough economic conditions would stand as a guardrail against this sort of shortsightedness.

Looks like you'd be wrong in that assumption.