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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Solidarity, OP. I'm in the same boat after a 4 year gap (just one kid) and I feel the same way. I'm happy with my choices, happy to be going back, loved the last few years and also looking forward to the next phase.

I think people assume it's going to be really hard to re-enter the workforce or that something critical has been lost that will handicap us moving forward. But since I have little to no interest in returning to the kind of job I was doing pre-kids, and in fact left that job pretty happily and saw motherhood as an opportunity to move on from a career that wasn't that fulfilling and didn't offer a ton of work/life balance, [b]I don't feel like I've lost anything[/b].

I have my second interview for a very interesting product development job next week and am thrilled. I thought interviewing would be really stressful and I'd feel like a fraud but it's felt easy and I feel more confident than I ever used to. I don't know if I'll get this job but I feel confident I will get a job, and I also feel like I'm approaching it from a powerful position of knowing I don't have to take the first thing that comes along or accept a bad offer because we've been making it work on one income for this long -- we can wait a few more months until I find the right fit.[/quote]

You've reduced your social security benefits down the road and lost some earning power from being out of the work force that will continue to impact how much money you earn for the rest of your career.   Women need to talk about this stuff.  Women are far more likely to end up in poverty in old age regardless of race, educational background, or marital status.

I'm not saying this is you.  However, these are actual issues that affect women in the aggregate and are real.  So it's not nothing is lost.

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