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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all relative.

My DH makes close to 400K once you factor in bonuses and stock gifts while I make about 70K.

Do we need my income? No.

Would we have bought our house and be taking the same vacations and spending/saving the same if I didn't work? Absolutely not. [/quote]

Wait.  What do we mean by “make enough money that you can stay at home?”  I thought it meant that the things above (house, vacation, etc) wouldn’t change. 
My husband makes about $450k.  If you take out what we pay for my income taxes, we spend about $350k.  
Nothing changes when I work or don’t work except that I’m not home as much.

If you can’t afford your mortgage without your job, then I would say that your partner does not make enough for you to SAH.  [/quote]

Yea I was thinking this. Mind you we live in nyc but $400k is not enuf for someone to stay home.

I mean it’s all relative right? To me unless you can afford to help all your kids with a down payment on their first house and pay all their college tuition - no one can afford to stay home [/quote]

Pp who you quoted.  I guess I don’t really agree with you.  Maybe it’s a cultural thing.

I don’t work for the money.  I give a lot of it away or we save it.  I don’t think that people need to work themselves to death until they have enough to pay their kids college tuition.  I have a good friend/coworker who is divorced, and often on her weekends without the kids she stays home or visits friends.  She doesn’t pick up extra shifts.  She is paying child support and alimony, and I knkw she can’t afford all of their college tuition, and that seems fine to me.  People need to do what works for them.  You don’t have to be working or caring for children constantly in order to justify your existence.

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