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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a friend in your situation. Before you break up your family you owe it to your kids to try getting a job. It may change the power/chores dynamic, and it may also provide you with more $ to outsource. Also, if you divorce you will have to work full time anyway, so try it now.

I SAH for a couple years and basically liked it but my marriage improved when I went back to work. I no longer cared about household stuff the same way, because it was as not as big a part of my life, if that makes sense. [/quote]

To expand on this, I used to feel resentment that his laziness was about "disrespect" for me and therefore it really irritated me, but after I was working FT realized it was more about tiredness and wanting downtime, and I felt the same way. I still wished the chores would get done, but I no longer took it personally and because I wasn't trying to be a great SAHM, I let go of the things that didn't matter. And I didn't care as much about the house being a little messy because I wasn't there during the day anyway.

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I was also in this situation and returning to work really healed my marriage. [/quote]

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