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TO her, his lack of income masked a greater problem: a lack of drive.

''I have to say that I didn't like his career, I didn't think he had the goals of someone I would eventually like to be with or have respect for,'' she said, adding, ''It wasn't the job, it was the passion.''

Unyi Agba, 27, an advertising executive with a small firm in Boston, almost always dates professional men, but when she goes out with someone earning less money, there is tension. ''This is a topic that's traveled in my own female circles a lot in the last year,'' she said. Across a restaurant table with a man who earns less, ''it's never explicitly said, but there are nuances,'' she said. ''Things are said like, 'Boy I'm going to be really broke after this dinner.' ''

And her response?

''Silence.''