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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely part of the whole package.

The night I met my wife it was because she was smoking hot.  When I later found out she had a graduate degree in STEM and a great job—that made her even more attractive.

We don’t need her salary, but she has always been able to work from home since our kids were born and what she does has value which I respect a lot.

She is extremely bright and seeing our sons easily are straight A students in all honors/AP as well as athletic and good-looking like her...I chose right.

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This is what I see IRL too. Educated UMC men typically want to marry educated UMC women who have the same views on education etc to raise their children. The SAHMs married to high earning men have advanced degrees and stopped working to raise the kids because the husband has a demanding career that pays well. It's too hectic for them to also have a wife who works when they have kids. I see a lot of big law husbands married to SAHMs who used to practice law too. No way can you raise well adjusted children with two big law parents. I've also seen your set up with the wife taking a mommy track position and acting as the default parent, or taking a year or two off here or there.[/quote]

I’m the pp and I agree with this.

The reason I was able to keep my job with my husband’s more demanding one was because I had the ability to WAH with a flex schedule.

I didn’t want to give up face time when my kids were young.  I probably would have dropped to part-time if I didn’t have that ability because I need work structure or I get lazy and my brain gets soft.

If my spouse was a surgeon with crazy on-call or a profession where he traveled constantly it would be tough to juggle.  My husband was able to get all local work once our first child was born. He’s an independent consultant.  My Fed health benefits helped with his ability to consult independently and keep great benefits.  It’s a team.[/quote]

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