SAHMs, do you worry about your husband leaving you?
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Anonymous
| I am always surprised how much confidence women who have quit work have that their husbands are really going to stay married to them. With the divorce rate around 50%, I'd have to be a total lunatic to make myself so dependent on him. SAHMs, do you ever have doubts or anxiety about this? |
Anonymous
| Please, ladies, don't take the bait! |
Anonymous
| OP here. PP, what do you mean? This is a serious and vital issue for many women and I am genuinely curious. |
Anonymous
if you arr truly just curious, search the archives, as this question has been discussed to death. |
Anonymous
| Not really. Well, not any more than when I worked. But he makes a lot of money and we have pretty substantial assets. And I don't think he would leave me destitute. My standard of living might change, but I'll be fine. His parents divorced and his mom was a SAHM. She came out just fine and his dad didn't screw her over financially. |
Anonymous
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Check out this link. 50% divorce rate doesn't tell the whole story.
http://www.divorcestatistics.org |
Anonymous
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No, not at all.
Honestly I believe it is the WOHM's that fret for us more in this regard. |
Anonymous
| No |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. PP, what do you mean? This is a serious and vital issue for many women and I am genuinely curious. [/quote]
If you want to be taken seriously, maybe you shouldn't call the women you're addressing "lunatics" in your OP. |
Anonymous
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No. I have a large inheritance to fall back on if need be.
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Anonymous
| Nah. We got married after we were both 30 so statistics tell me our divorce potential is much lower. Is be really worried if we married before we were 20. |
Anonymous
| No. If we divorce I will get a lot more money as a SAHM. It's the working moms with their own salary who really get screwed in a divorce. |
Anonymous
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No. He might be worried about me leaving him.
Left my first husband (he was abusive) when my kid was only 10 months old. not staying because of vows, money or child or anything else if I were mistreated or didn't want to be married anymore. |
Anonymous
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No.
If he does, then I am educated and qualified and can get a job if/when necessary. |
Anonymous
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Nope. Both of us have parents who are still together, we both finished grad school before marrying, and we were married more than 10 years before I quit. All of those things point to a divorce rate much, much lower than 50 percent.
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