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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previous poster who has been a SAHP for twelve years now.

First, my SO and I have been happily together as Partners for 23 years now, so no, I am not worried that we will break up.

Second, we are committed to each other and to our children, and the domestic arrangement we have - in which I handle the home front, and they handle the professional front - has worked very well for us.  SO absolutely loves and takes great pride in their professional and career success and accomplishments, and I absolutely love being a SAHP to several children.

Would I want every American family to have the same arrangement?  No, that is precisely what makes this country so wonderful, that we can all make our own choices and live our own lives openly and free of condemnation.

Finally, we are no longer spring chickens, but rather a couple in our mid- to-late 40s with our oldest heading off to college, and several more still at home for the next nine years.

I will probably not return to work in my mid 50s, and with our current rate of savings, SO plans to retire in their early 60s, and we will have more than enough to do so comfortably.[/quote]

Seriously, enough with the pronouns. We get it. You do the kids, "they" do the work. No way that that is a life I'd want to live.[/quote]

And no way is yours a life I'd want to live, and that is the benefit of living in a society in which we all get to choose and live our lives the way we want.  Unfortunately even that is not true, though, as so many people in this country and around the world lack the most basic resources live their lives.  Use your energy, pp, to make this world a better place for others in need, instead of criticizing the lives of those others on this thread.[/quote]

What exactly do you think my life involves?
You're an odd one.[/quote]

And what exactly do you think my life involves, when you first opened with the antagonistic "[n]o way that that is a life I'd want to live."

Guess what?  I am not asking that anyone else live my life, or make the personal choices, that I have made (not even my children).  I look at persons of different backgrounds, life choices, opinions, and points of view, and I respect those differences.  You do not know me, and it is condescending to judge another person's life choices even if you did.

Your life appears to involve, in part, anonymously criticizing, putting down, belittling, and berating those persons whose life choices you disagree with, and for that, and that reason alone, I said that "[a]nd no way is yours a life I'd want to live."

You truly have the gift of insight, energy, reason, persuasion, thoughtful writing, so please use those gifts to help and advocate for those persons who - unlike you - make their life decisions based not on their wants, preferences, or desires, but on the basis of their most basic needs.[/quote]

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