I was a small child at the time. They had a comfortable quality of life on a single income, owned a house, were putting kids through parochial $chool, were religious, were conservative (based on what was called conservative in the 1980s/90s), had minimal social life outside activities related to kids.

So very little in common with my life at the same age; I am not married/financially intertwined with my person and we have no kids.