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[quote=Anonymous]I am a 56 year old woman. When I was growing up in a small town in the 1960s my mother did not work outside the home, my grandmothers did not work outside the home, and none of my friends' mothers worked outside the home unless they had a family business and they "helped out" in the business.

I have a professional job ($150,000+ a year), two children in their 20s who are both employed and not living at home, a loving husband who I have been married to for 32 years (who also has a professional job), a nice house, a 401K, other investments, and almost every possible indicator of an upper middle class adult life. However, the one time I truly feel like an adult is when I take an occasional day off from work to catch up on errands and other domestic chores. Going to the grocery store at 11 a.m. on a weekday makes me feel like an adult. Going to my job where I earn a respectable salary and where people look up to me and ask me for my input and my opinion does not.

I know this is not rational. The only way I can understand it is to think it must be related to my childhood when most adult women did not work. Does anyone else feel this way? I know that my daughter felt like she became an adult when she got her first professional job, but she grew up with the role model of a mother who worked. [/quote]

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