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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the opportunity to be off on Fridays but my husband told me if I did that it would mean he's canceling our once/month cleaning lady and I'd have to do those tasks. We could still definitely afford the cleaning lady once/month on a reduced schedule so I am interpreting that to mean that he will see all domestic tasks as my responsibility. Since I want to go part time due to health reasons, this would actually mean I'm taking on more work so I can see how it will end up. I don't think I'm going to reduce my schedule for this reason. [/quote]

Holy shit! That's awful. I think our (weekly) cleaning service costs a lot less than counseling, and makes us even happier than the dinners out we'd be able to afford if we weren't paying them.

Sounds like your husband doesn't want you to cut back at work.[/quote]

He doesn't want me to cut back and thinks that I'm "entitled" for bringing it up for discussion. He thinks I'm too young to not work full time. Before I got pregnant (I was on the fence about wanting to have a baby at all but he pushed for it) I told him that when it was time for our kid to go to K I wanted to work 4 days/week in order to have the opportunity to volunteer in his classroom/school and he agreed. Our kid started K 3 weeks ago and now I'm "entitled".

I'm the teacher with IBD who posted in the jobs forum a few weeks ago. I'm home today because I'm in the middle of a bad flare and waiting for the steroids to kick in. [/quote]

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