Didn't want to comment on this but I guess it triggered me. When I met my husband, I was 25, he was 27. We got married 6 months later. I was already consulting in IT, he was in his final year of college. It'll be 8 years this Saturday. We file our taxes jointly. The first couple of years, I had more income than he did. The following years, our joint income doubled with him making more than me. We've been "doubling our incomes " yearly in a friendly competition to push each other. When he makes more than me in investments, I set up couple of businesses to boost myself. It's all still a joint income and the plan is to keep setting goals together and smashing them. We don't use "I grew", "myself" when it comes to our growth. I don't know why this person felt this way in her marriage but this is not the standard.
I met my wife at 20 and married her at 24. 8 years later my interests are also unrecognisable.
So my wife winds me up about them and we laugh together about it.
No idea why people are making 'till death do us part' vows when really they mean 'so long as it's convenient'