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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even in well paying jobs, I’ve noticed that the men with SAHMs notice the men with the same jobs but who have wives who work have less pressure and more income and are envious especially if the spouse has good enough hours they do a lot of the SAHM duties. [/quote]
Being the sole breadwinner is quite stressful. Makes sense.[/quote]

But it's much easier to advance at work and much less stressful if you never have to worry about the kids or anything at the house.  You go further than the guy who has to take the day off for sick kids or leave MWF at 5:30pm to do daycare pickup [/quote]
Men don't do any of that shit anyways. Let's stop pretending that the SAHM is the "Reason" for a mans success. That's just imaginary flattery to content yourself for sitting at home all day. Do you think working moms don't pick up their kids? [/quote]

It most certainly is much easier for anyone to advance when they don't have to worry about much outside of work, and can relax and not stress about any of that.  You obviously don't have a partner who manages it all for you, so you don't recognize it.

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I think pps point is that men don't stress about that in general. So it's not actually relieving anything. It's just patting yourself on the back for a made up benefit. [/quote]

Maybe in your household.  But in mine if I was working we split things 50/50.  Spouse had potential to advance further in job (same background, I just didn't want to be an exec, I liked the technical work and was damn good at it).  So we decided that once we had kids it would be better to have someone to focus on the kids and the household.  I wanted to do that--was all set up to send first kid to daycare, then they arrived and I decided nope I wanted to be with them for at least first 2 years then realized I enjoyed it and for us having an at home parent was better.  Spouses job required traveling as well and so had mine.  So it was what was best for the family.  
But I also knew i married a great man who would always take care of us.  In the event of a divorce i would have gotten my fair share (happily married 30+ years )

So in a good relationship it is relieving stress and responsibilities because my husband had those 50/50 when I was in a paid job.

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