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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a 40YO SAHM of 3. I will be 57 when youngest leaves for college.

When I mention going back to work, DH tells me that I should consider myself retired. I left my finance career and will not be returning.

DH is my retirement package. He earns a seven figure income and we have the funds retire now.

We have a few neighbors who are young and retired. They have young children like us. Maybe they are the pp. they are rich, live in a mansion, have a jet, etc. they say they are retired and they are. The dad doesn’t say he is a stay at home dad. I know a dad who is 45ish and doesn’t work. He also says he is retired.

I never considered being a SAHM a job. Seems strange to say you retired from being a SAHM. I would never say that. I also don’t say that I am retired to other people. [/quote]

Being a sahm is absolutely a job. What is wrong with you? Mothers will young children cannot walk away from the children. They have to take care of them and that's WORK. [/quote]

NP. I guess it’s personal perspective. I have NEVER considered being a SAHM a “job” or “work”. Certainly I don’t list it as my occupation.  :lol:

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I think you are one of the few who feels that way. [/quote]

Maybe because I think of parenting as a personal responsibility. My “job” has always been associated with my professional career. I would never put “sahm” on my resume. Or any form really.

I also don’t consider my DH watching the kids “babysitting”.

And I don’t consider that working parents (my DH included) have a “part-time job” of parenting.

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Most forms have stay at home mom or homemaker as an occupation. Why is this so hard to understand? You tell people you're a SAHM because it's a job. I swear some women love to argue about the dumbest things. [/quote]

Yes, I never use those terms. I either note my profession or “retired”.

I don’t tell anyone my “job” is SAHM because it’s not.

Do all of the DHs who WOH full-time believe that they have a part-time “job” as a parent?

Just because there is effort involved doesn’t make it a “job”.  WTF? 
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