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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Original blog post from 2015 is gone, but it got a lot of viral commentary.

"I can't afford my wife"

https://www.mindfood.com/article/texas-husband-blogs-that-he-cant-afford-his-stay-at-home-wife/

This isn't new. This a core principle of conservator family values, valuing wives and mothers and aunties and grandmothers. [/quote]

As a SAHM I find that whole mentality vomit worthy. Yes I work hard but my husband works hard too. We are a team and it works for us. Neither of us is exploited or undervalued. [/quote]

Nice job missing the point entirely! [/quote]

I don’t think she missed the point at all. You just didn’t like what she said because she’s right. [/quote]
I agree. Being paid for being a toilet scrubber or line cook or whatever isn’t really what the “job” is. I am irreplaceable in my kids’ lives. So is my DH obviously, but he really does very little around the house. But it’s not chores or chauffeuring that create the value. It’s that I understand my kids, I know exactly what they need emotionally, physically, etc. Nobody else can do that. If you know someone who never met their mother, or lost their mother when they were young, they would pay you all the money in the world to have her back (assuming she wasn’t abusive). I think we should stop conflating dollars with value. True value isn’t bound by the construct of man made currency. [/quote]

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