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[quote=Anonymous][quote]tough spot. I was there last year. Good luck. Hopefully they gave him some severance, and in that period he can find a suitable replacement job. Once the severance runs out, hopefully you can dip into savings and get some unemployment benefits. Assuming he has decent experience, I think getting a comparable salary shouldn't be impossible. [/quote]

thanks we have a month pay, we have savings/emergency cash and DH is a very determined and motivtated networker, so I feel pretty good about his prospects of getting a new job within a reasonable (several month) framework. He already has 2 informal interviews/discussions. One of the reasons I married him was that even though he didn't make a lot of money, he is not one to mope about things and get depressed or feel that something is too good for him, unlike my last boyfriend!

That being said, it brings home what many families in this country are facing--and with people who don't have great job prospects.

I also think that reading about all these high income couples has made me a little crazy. I admit that i feel sick/envious of the 250k plus couples, and look critically at us, and then the envy begins and I wonder what my life would be like if we were pulling in 300k plus.....and then I think about what an incredibly small fraction of society this is, and how many families are struggling just to pay for food/heat/etc and I feel ashamed for wishing we were in that higher bracket, with 2 nice cars, and a 4 bedroom house in the fairfax county school district, etc.

the other interesting thing this thread has brought up is how different upbringings can lead to different expectations. I grew up in a 'comfortable' familiy--I never heard big worries about money, my parents paid for private school in high school and funded college--after that I was on my own and it was like, whoa, things cost a lot of money, and I worked hard to cover rent and grad school, etc, but I basically had a lot handed to me. I also went to an ivy league and many of my classmates are pulling in a lot of money. DH, on the other hand, grew up poor, money was always an issue, and he has worked his way through everything--college, and after. So for him. our income was a real achievement--to have enough money to have a house, put food on the table, occasionally take a trip (nowhere fancy, but out to the west coast to visit family, etc). Whereas for me I had to adjust my expectations.

At the end of the day, however, I realize that we're happy. I'd like more money so I could go parttime and have another child, but on the other hand, our marrige is solid, we are not completely in debt, and we are lucky to have what we do. [/quote]

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