But you'll just adjust. My dad was worried a few years ago he might lose his job because his company was going through big changes and they were unionizing some positions etc. He was stressing out so much. My mom sat him down and told him to stop. If needed, they'd sell the house and just grab a condo - something smaller, more affordable. That she'd rather have him lose his job and they need to make a few adjustments rather than him stress himself out to the point of having a heart attack or something. He relaxed after that and turns out, he was good anyway, so he was stressing for no reason. You wouldn't be less of a man - you can help with stuff at home more in that case. So long as two people are working together to be successful in LIFE (and success to me isn't just measured by money) then that's a healthy partnership in my eyes.
I dunno that's just the way I am, I've seen it when my brother in law lost his job couldn't find work for more than a year, just my sister was working and they had two kids
. And I could tell it bothered him, whether you are making a dollar a hour or 100 a hour, whether you have to rob and steal or hustle etc., every man wants to provide for his family, and if I wasn't able to being married and having a family I would feel like less of a man. As well if you were always working while saying dating, courting, getting married and then finally not, whats to know she will stick with you for the struggle or jet.
And well your mom is a good woman, the past generation was cut from a different cloth.