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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he is a caring dad with minimal professional ambitions, and you are an ambitious career lady, why isn't that the perfect situation?  He can focus on the kids and the home front, and you can focus on your career and making more money without having to be the primary caregiver for your LO.

However, this will require you to respect and value the work he does as a parent.  Can you do that?[/quote]

I didn't necessarily read this to mean 'minimal professional ambitions' but more unrealistic ambitions.   OP said he was unhappy with his job.[/quote]

She said he is not ambitious.  If he is not ambitious and is unhappy with his job, it seems like him becoming a SAHP or maybe scaling back to part-time to focus on the kids would be a good solution.  Then OP can focus on her career, and make all that money she wishes she had more of.  And hopefully she can learn to appreciate and respect his work as a parent, and focus on that rather than his sub-par breadwinning.  However, I suspect that OP may be caught up in traditional gender roles.[/quote]

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