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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She feels bad about herself.  You do realize that's why she won't shut up about it.

If she keeps bringing it up, ask her if she wants to go back to work.  Occasionally people do.[/quote]

This. She feels bad that her career ended early. Probably people from her MBA class are now in very high level positions, making huge money, some are probably even semi-famous. She likely keeps track of former colleagues too.

I don't talk about it, but I have a similar history and I have struggled a lot with it in my 40s because of this feeling I fell off a career track and wasted my potential. I'm not a SAHM but I mommy tracked hard, and it can be hard to look at where peers are. I often feel bad about myself when I see people from grad school or old jobs. I know why the choices I made were right for me at the time, but I think about how my life looks from the outside and sometimes it just makes me feel bad.

I'd literally just ask her how she feels about leaving her old job now. Maybe she needs to talk about it. [/quote]

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