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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She probably wants to go private because as the sahm with your income, that’s what all her friends do. [b]She’s screwed either way.[/b] If you send your kids to public her friends will look down on her and she’ll probably lose her friends as they grow closer with other parents at the private school. If you make her work, she will lose her sahm mom friends and it’s super hard to make new mom friends as a Jr high or HS mom. Mom friendships are forged when kids are young and need the moms to coordinate activities, camps, rides, etc. [/quote]

You left off the option where she can manipulate him into paying for private, while still staying home against his reservations.[/quote]

I didn’t leave it off. I fully expect that is what will happen. Having a spouse work when you make $500k is stupid. Having a sah spouse is a luxury that makes life much more convenient for the high earner. [/quote]

Private school is a luxury as well. This women seems to want all of the luxuries without having to bust her a** to afford them. [/quote]

Exactly. This is the best comment in this thread.

A lot of women on this forum are delusional af.[/quote]

[b]The majority of higher earning UMC men don’t make their wives work.[/b]  They just don’t.  It’s a cultural thing.  Parents fully pay for college, the bride’s parents pay for the wedding, marriage happens before kids and the wife isn’t expect to return to work at 6-8 weeks post childbirth.  Some do, but many don’t.

It’s not remotely delusional to want to send your kid to private school and consider it on a 500k HHI.  Also we don’t even know where OP lives. He may not be in a HCOL city.

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They also have some measure of authority when it comes to big household decisions, especially ones involving big financial outlays. Or at least they used to...

As previously referenced in this thread, a lot of these women want all of the decision making authority and veto power to cater to their whims without having to engage in the grind to make such whims a possibility in the first place. Raising kids and taking care of a household are not appreciably more difficult or rare skillsets at 500K HHI vs. 100K HHI. If anything, it should be easier with that extra income and potential for hired help. In the realm of housekeepers, you likely are not special, whereas in the labor market 500K HHI is....[/quote]

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