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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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?

[b]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][/b]

Now THAT is a douchy comment.[/quote]

Actually if you know any immigrants it's highly relevant when talking about issues of personal finance. Constant demands for money from home-country relatives can be very trying. [/quote]

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