Reply to How did your spouse (or you) resolve long-term unemployment?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "How did your spouse (or you) resolve long-term unemployment?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so you have a stay-at-home father and you are considering divorcing him.

All things being equal then he should get the kids and you should pay child support and alimony. You should move out of the house and he gets to keep it.

He is supporting you in your career. Without him your career would not be possible. He is at home doing unpaid labor while take advantage of that labor and spend your day having fun at work.[/quote]

Uh, no. This is OP.

How do you figure that without him my "career would not be possible"? I put myself through school, I've found and excelled at every job I've had, I purchased my home with my own money before meeting him, I pay all bills for my family, AND I also am the default parent for most things. Kids are in school. My career would be 100% fine without him. I'm not some big law partner working 15 hour days or whatever who needs to outsource everything to a stay at home parent and hired help.

I put in full days at work, then have another shift at night and on the weekends doing regular parenting and home stuff. I'm not complaining about the second shift (that's what parenting is), but I have a spouse who has like half a shift max. He's NOT "at home doing unpaid labor" -- that's the problem. He's at home doing the most basic parenting -- walking the kids a couple blocks to school, making spaghetti (from a jar) for dinner -- and he doesn't do anything else really.

He could work without a significant impact on our home life. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics