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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big hugs, OP.

I ended up as a SAHM because my boss fired me for having a special needs child I had to rush home to instead of putting in 10 hours a day, as expected in my profession. We decided I would stay home permanently to enjoy a smaller but less stressful life on my husband's income.

And now the kids are growing up, and I am just starting to think about getting back into the workforce, in my mid-40s. Right when all the feds are being fired in DC, not a great time.

It is what it is. I hope you did have moments of deep joy even in the trenches of work and parenting. You still have many decades to enjoy your life!
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I assume your DH got focus on his career, and had some success there?  We should have had me SAHM, and taken a chance with DH to succeed.  But we were trying to be equitable, which means it sucked for both of us. I didn’t want him staying late at work either, because I wanted help at home as I was exhausted from work already, and he was always late to work dropping off the kids. [/quote]

Not exactly. Our HHI has never gone past 150K. However he had great luck investing in the stock market, and we are able to send our kids to college and plan retirement with that. But our daily life is frugal. We live in a tiny house, drive cars we bought when the kids were born, that sort of thing. We've learned to be happy with what we have, which compared to others in the world is already quite a lot.
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