Reply to So have we talked about this SAHM in Arlington Profile?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "So have we talked about this SAHM in Arlington Profile?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get your general point and agree that the petty drama needs to end. But this "you do you" mentality is ultimately self-serving because it doesn't help those people who don't have choices. We can do more than simply "feel bad" for them and feel thankful for our own privilege.

[/quote]

What are we supposed to do for other people? Sorry you can't afford to take a break from your job but no one is going to pay you to stay home.[/quote]

Seriously.  Boy I would love to get back pay for the 18 years I've been at home- talk about a jackpot!  I also would have loved to have traveled before we had kids kids but we were busy working, saving money, paying off debt, having very low/no car payments, living in an affordable apartment in a less sought after area for years, scrimping and saving for a down payment and then buying a less expensive house in a less expensive neighborhood so that we would have financial leeway down the road.

This idea that this all somehow fell out of the sky for us is just...wrong.  I've seen too many people who had just as much money as we did choose to do things differently which is totally fine.  Just don't complain about how "easy" we had it.  Staying home was a choice because we worked hard to make it a choice and we were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to make it feasible.  I totally, 100% understand why others may choose differently.

The folks here on DCUM bragging about making enormous 300K+ salaries are not typical.  They certainly didn't live in our middle class neighborhood where people were actually living on tight household budgets but often had a SAHP for at least a time while raising their children.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics