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How many couples are in a Female-led relationship?

It can be loosely defined or very structured but I think the FLR is right for a lot of couples.
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blindbob · 41-45
I wish my mother had been in charge instead of my father. We suffered a lot because of his poor decision-making. But you know, he was a man so he was taught he must naturally know better. When he left the country, my mother was thrust into a role she was not ready for. At first she was self-conscious about every decision, but gradually she learned to trust her own decision-making and we thrived. She paid off her student loans, funded a retirement account, bought and furnished a house, built an attached garage and shed, fenced the yard, learned home repairs. We never had our utilities turned off ever again. We had new clothes for school and Christmas. Three of the five kids were college educated, two of the five with post-grad degrees.

What I learned from that experience is women generally prioritize the needs of the family, while men tend to prioritize their individual needs; because women prioritize the needs of the family, they are generally more willing to make sacrifices, take shots to the ego, and endure humiliating situations if it will benefit the family, men would rather the family suffer than be humiliated or disrespected; women are less willing to take big risks, men are more willing to take big risks, sometimes they pay off big, but sometimes they lead to a lot of suffering; women see the big picture and all of its parts, men focus on a single thing at a time and overlook the details. All of these traits suggest that (generally speaking) women are better suited for leadership roles, while men are better when delegated with specific focused tasks with a concrete endpoint.