There is no evidence in the recitals in the agreement, in the material provided on the motion or in the transcripts of cross-examinations that, at the time of the agreement, the parties shared a mutual intention that the wife would be self-supporting by June, 1995. There was no evidence on which this court could find, as the court did in Dafoe v. Buddle, (supra) that at the time of the agreement both parties “contemplated self-sufficiency for the wife”. It was the wife’s evidence on her cross-examination that she thought that by June, 1995 she would have a job. It was the husband’s evidence on his cross-examination that he and his wife had never had any discussions as to whether she would get a job. The court is not able to find, on the evidence, that if the fact that the wife would not have a job by June, 1995 was known at the time of the agreement, the spousal support arrangements would have been different.
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