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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess if you divorce him you'll really find out how little he does.[/quote]

OP, from one stay at home mom to another, that balance sounds correct.

Managing the home is your "job" [/quote]

Including all the yard work and other physical stuff that a man usually does in a traditional arrangement? I think OP is completely wrong to be flirting with other men, but setting that aside for the moment, she has a valid complaint if she is spending 8 to 6 caring for kids -- the same time her husband is commuting/working -- and then also does every single other thing around the house.

DH and I both work full time with two young kids, and we both took extended leave when each was born -- 5 months for each for me, 2 months for each for him after I went back to work. No question for either of us that staying home was harder, at least for our personality types and jobs (lawyers). If you are outsourcing everything it makes sense for the SAH parent to oversee it because she can be home when the workers come. But if she literally has to do the yardwork herself, when is that getting done? Not during the day, surely, with young kids. Which means it's the weekend. Unless her husband also works all the time on the weekends, which OP didn't say, then he needs to get off his ass and split the weekend chores. It's not fair for one spouse to work 24-7 and the other only 12-5.[/quote]

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