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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a SAHM can make people very narrow focused,

Both my SILs are SAHMs. I completely support their choice to do that and one is a fantastic SAHM (the other not so much!).

But the reality is that it has made their world very small. They talk about kids, complain about kids, talk about home management and home decorating and not much else. All my brothers hear about is what the kids did wrong all day, all the frustrations of being at home with the kids. It would be like my brothers coming home and whining for an hour every day about everything negative that happened all day at work. i think too because they are around kids all day they start to talk like the kids - in the sense that they whine and complain and cry. And then they try and parent my brothers with nagging and other child parent like actions.

It is the reality of what people's daily lives become. You take on the characteristics of what you are around all day and want the other person to get your world.

One of my SILs is incredibly academically minded - being a SAHM was the right decision for their family but the wrong decision for her as a person. She was not good at the role, made everyone's life miserable and thankfully she has just gone back to work! My other sister in law just needs more variety in her life - she is better at home given their situation and great at being a SAHM but gets too narrow focused.[/quote]

I am not sure being a SAHM makes their world very small.  As a listener, SAHMs talking about their life is no smaller or less boring than some cubicle sitter droning and whining about super exciting job.  Most people’s jobs are not exciting either.[/quote]

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