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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:17 you don't have to get nasty.  And again, you miss the point.  It's how people spend their time off, not how much they spend at work that matters in most cases.  Yes, ideally parents are home by 4 PM like your DH and have dinner with the kids and put them to bed after listening to what's on their minds and then, once the kids are asleep, have wild, passionate sex with interesting, stimulating conversation every single night.  But since that's not the reality for most of us - including, apparently, big law partners and their spouses, it does make sense to focus on how a working spouse is spending their time at home.  If it's making breakfast for the kids, or at games on the weekends, or on family vacations, or time late night when they're home from work.  [u]And so if you have to choose, it is absolutely quality over quantity.[/u]  [/quote]

I didn't get nasty, and I didn't miss the point, and I never said our life is perfect in the way you describe.

I do agree that if you must choose, quality is more important than quantity.  But I disagree that quality is enough, by itself, if the quantity is not there.[/quote]

So true, but those pursuing the golden ring at all costs like to rationalize that "trade offs" (as mentioned by at least one PP) are necessary and acceptable. [/quote]

By the same token, those who prattle on about how much better they are because they get home at 4 every day and how they simply couldn't bear to be apart from their children are often rationalizing their inability to achieve more success and pull themselves out of the drudgery of their daily existence.

(I don't really think that, I'm just trying to be as condescending and holier-than-thou as you and the PP.  How'd I do?)[/quote]

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