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[quote=Anonymous]About 6 months ago DW took a moonlighting/consulting-type gig that pays, per hour, about 2x her day job with a nonprofit. Originally the idea was just to have one client at a time, 3-4 hrs/wk, in order to have a little extra "pin money."  She's been getting lots of clients, though, and has not said no to any yet. So I never see her anymore. We leave the house at 7:30 together and she's home at 7:30, just in time to put 1yo DD to bed while I get 4yo DS ready for bed. Saturdays she's gone all day and Sundays she works a couple hours too. Incidentally, she just got a $4K raise in her day job and now makes 80% of my salary. We're far from rich but have no touble paying the bills; in fact most of what she's earning on the side is just sitting in her LLC checking account gathering dust.

Any ideas how to help her dial it back?

FWIW she's an immigrant from a conservative country and is the first woman in her family to have a profession/WOH. Fortunately home country relatives have never hit her up for $$$ or if they have she's ignored it and never mentioned it to me. [/quote]

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