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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you really have two full time jobs (80 hours a week?) then I'm guessing you're simply exhausted. Do you have to work that much or are you doing it because you think you have to. Both my BIL and SIL earn 6 figure salaries and she's always whining about having to work so much and when anyone suggests she sah she snaps that they couldn't possibly afford to live on his salary...which they could if they changed their lifestyle. So maybe you need more sleep, maybe you need a change. Maybe a life coach to help you think through it?[/quote]

No, no, not literally, PP!  What I mean is that between full-time work and home, it FEELS like two full-time jobs.  I leave my house at 6:45.  Work from 7:30-4pm.  Pick up kids.  Some portion of making dinner/homework/kid activities/bathtime/other chores.  Then kid bedtimes (DH and I split all this up), and then it's time to get ready for the next day, shower and pass out by 10pm because I am not one of these people who can function on less than 7 hours sleep.

I wouldn't mind down-sizing our life to live on my salary, but DH is not into this idea.  I think he is also not ready to admit that I have more long-term salary potential.  He is also terrified of one-salary b/c of the fear of that person losing their job and then what?  I get that 100% having been the child of a single mother and a less than reliable father.

So one thing I have done recently is say, you know, I don't need to keep climbing the ladder.  If it comes okay, but I'm not gunning for it.  On the one hand it feels freeing, but on the other it's kind of like okay, wash rinse repeat each day then?  But now he's trying to go for a bigger job and I just feel like holy shit our life will really fall apart then!  [/quote]

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