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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you involved as a father and husband? [b] You sound disconnected and uninterested in family life. [/b] If all you give them is money and not time or respect, then they'll treat you like an ATM.  Teens are expensive and need a lot of guidance.  It sounds like you don't have much respect for your wife, and you think you're better than her because you work.    [/quote]

I don't get that at all.

In fact, I think we have a new trend here where the kids age out, the SAHMs refuse to go back to work and essentially become freeloaders. Today's fathers get stuck with the proverbial "second shift."

The NYT should write a piece about it.[/quote]

I'm not so sure "refuse" is the accurate word here. Have you ever tried to get a job in a crappy economy after a decade or more out of the workforce? Let alone a flexible part-time job like OP expects his wife to find so she can still be available to do all of the house and kid stuff?  [/quote]

Has she made any effort? It's not acceptable to just say, "oh, well, i've been out of the workforce for 10 years and the economy sucks, so I'm just going to go shopping again, ok?" Cuz that's what's happening here. BTW, the job market is much improved, especially in this area.[/quote]

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