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[quote=Anonymous]My mother never returned to the workforce after stopping working in the mid 1970s, even before her first child was born. She'd been a teacher and was unhappy in a difficult school situation so my father suggested she stop working and they try for a family. She was in her mid 20s.

She's been very happy. She keeps herself busy and occupied and has never questioned that she didn't work. If you're happy and life is good, then why worry what others think?

I do work, but so what? I really don't see my work any differently than a SAHM, it's just a different way to occupy the day, and I've already pretty much gone as far as I can and while it's fine, being a generic senior manager at a big company still means when I retire/die no one is going to give me a merit award and I won't have accomplished anything more meaningful than someone who stayed at home the entire time. It's just pushing paper from one end of the desk to the other and keeping the ball rolling.

We live in very judgmental times with everyone seemingly judging and comparing each other on how accomplished or how moral or how righteous we can be and it's a disservice. I used to worry about how others saw me, but one day I realized life for most people is effectively just keeping the ball rolling as best as we can, regardless of where we were or what we did or who we were. Live decently, be a nice person, take pleasure in your family and friends, and enjoy a few treats every now and then. That's what life really is all about. Everything else is just invented angst.

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