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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I married in 1998. After first kid in 2000 my wife decided she wanted to be SAHM. She actually had resentment her Mom worked and never there for her. Never a parent in stands, walking home alone no one to pick her up.

I was making 61k at time. It was crazy as she was making 68k. I let her do it.

I had rock on my back needed to earn more. By 2004 doubled my salary. By 2010 I as making 310k by 2915 making 360k.

The man with a SAHM wife, mortgage and three kids will out-earn the guy with 1-2 kids and a working wife by double! Maybe 5x.

It is selfish for women to work  [/quote]

WTF are you smoking?

I met my husband in 1996 and we were both making around the same as you and your wife at 26 years old.  We got married at 28.  My Fed job allowed him the security to run wild with his career and take risks (since we had my substantial health benefits and Fed salary to fall back on). He was making $500k by 32.  I never quit my job and I was always home with my flexible Fed schedule and then WAH in the early 2000s.  So while my salary didn't shoot up like his, I make around $200k today and have about $2.5 million in my own TSP fed savings plan.

The man with a wife making $ at a flexible job will outearn the man with the SAHM wife, mortgage and three kids...and we now have two mortgages on homes worth $2million paid off before our first starts college next year.[/quote]

DP, but yeah, if you have a government income where you "WAH" with a "flexible" schedule, sure.  You're basically a SAHM with a pretend job but a real salary.  Most people aren't running this racket, though.[/quote]

DP. In what world is $200k a pretend salary?[/quote]

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