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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a few posters - not many as they are quite prolific - who constantly scan the parenting and relationship boards looking for any reference to working status of mothers. They then insist repeatedly why it’s necessary and important for them to SAH with their school aged children, and any mother who doesn’t clearly cares more for money than her children, or married a deadbeat who can’t “support his family.” If only we were all lucky enough to have married “wonderful, supportive” husbands like theirs who don’t need or want them to work and care not what they do all day. Anyone trying to assert that they are happy working and it does not in any way negatively affect their family is essentially called, by these posters, a lair or a fool. It’s so predictable, it’s boring. I can’t quite understand why a secure, happy person would spend their time doing this.[/quote]

Actually I’m sometimes resentful that Dh is too successful. I have friends where both the wife and husband have well paying relatively flexible jobs and it seems wonderful. Dh makes a seven figure income and out earns most of our friends. If he also earned a few hundred and could share the kid duties, I would have gone back to work. Juggling 3 kids a lot and there are always new ways they need us. I actually think my middle school child needs me just as much as my youngest.

I am mostly happy. That doesn’t mean I sometimes don’t mourn my career. Dh thinks I miss my childfree young professional life in NYC more than the work and he is right. [/quote]

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