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[quote=Anonymous]I had a very similar exchange with my wife of 20 years when we first started dating in college. I expressed my opinion that kids do better with a parent who stayed home. I said I didn't have strong opinions as to whether the mother or father stayed home but, because of our likely career trajectories, it was clear that, financially, she'd be the most likely person to stay home. She was pretty mad about it, but I said that it was only my opinion -- if she didn't want to stay home, I wouldn't expect her to.

We didn't have kids for about another 6 years after that. In the meantime, we'd gotten married and she had become a teacher. As a teacher, she had the strong sense that the kids who were better in class were very often the ones who had a stay at home parent. (Also, I think the non-teaching aspects of her job were wearing on her). Consequently, she had changed her mind on staying home.

She started her own work from home business while the kids were little and has progressively grown it larger and larger as the kids have required less of her time. She's far happier with her job now than she was as a teacher.

Just one family's story, but this doesn't have to mean the relationship is doomed. [/quote]

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