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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Hecka yah, who wouldn’t love to have someone give them money to do whatever the heck they want all day? Of course I’m jealous! [/quote]

WTF?  [/quote]

Kids in college, DH working and providing all the cash she needs for hobbies, volunteering, yoga and lunch.  What is confusing about that?[/quote]

Op is probably taking care of errands, most of the cooking, much of the cleaning and yard work.  Even if she has a housekeeper and yard service (I do not) there are things that have to get done in between.

When her husband gets home from work he doesn't have to worry about what's for dinner or whether or not the dry cleaning needs to be picked up.  All those little million and one things are taken care of so his life is made much easier, too.  Sometimes it's worth doing w/o the extra income from a second earner, sometimes it's not.  That's something that Op has to decide for herself.[/quote]
+1  When I was a sahm, DH had very little to do when at home.  He still cleaned up after dinner to help out, but most everything that I could handle, I did. The only thing I couldn't do was the heavy yard work, which is infrequent, and DH didn't mind doing as it got him to do something physical rather than sitting on his butt all day at work and in the car.

I am now back to work, and the amount of time that DH and I have had to take off in the past few months for things like dr's appointments, school stuff, etc.. has been ridiculous. We both  miss the days when I didn't have to work and I did it all without stressing about taking time off work.

I told DH recently that I won't know what to do with all my time once the kids leave and there are no more dr's appointments for them.  Between the dentist, ortho, eye, medical, and therapist, and my own medical issues, I spend way too much time at the dr's.  And as we get older, my DH and I also spend more time at the dr's.[/quote]

A SAHM with little kids totally makes sense; OP would be a house wife, which sure makes it easy but she will have a LOT of downtime.

In your case, it sounds like you may not be able to work b/c you are disabled if you are going to the doctor for yourself almost daily. That’s a different thing and I hope you get better. [/quote]

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