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Similar problem different forum. Interesting post.

"This topic just irritates the heck out of me because it always comes down to people saying you should never be financially dependent on anyone else. IMO, if you are married, you are financially Interdependent. When we both work, we depend on each other's salaries. When I stayed home, we depended on his AND the fact that my work had helped us get a good start in our home etc. If my DH had to (or we chose for him to) stop working, we would depend on mine.

I think we are getting to the point where no one should marry or join finances with someone without a legal agreement. I don't know that I would be willing to become a SAHM at this point without one - there is just too little respect for anyone who doesn't earn their own money. Now, instead of splitting sacrifices, it's a "too bad for you" nanner nanner attitude. It just bothers me that people think they can leave a marriage and pretend it didn't happen.

If my dh and I were to divorce right now, I would expect alimony to help make up for my lost wage earning potential. Our kids are grown, but I know exactly how much my salary would be now had I kept working our entire marriage. I would expect that we would sort of split that sacrifice.

The idea that you should be able to join forces, have one partner sacrifice career to stay home and take care of the kids, then have the wage earner leave her/him penniless afterwards because they didn't make any money is ridiculous.?" 
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