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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My CEO sister’s husband is the stay at home dad to two kids and I am a stay at home mom with two kids to my busy law firm partner husband. My sister judges me for being SAH and then boasts about her amazing husband ) who “does so much for the family” ….
For some reason it’s cool and respectable to be a man who raises the kids but not for a woman. And no one whispers about what will her husband do when they are 50 and divorced ….[/quote]

This has not been our experience AT ALL.  Granted, we now have teens, but my husband stayed home when my kids were young and was routinely excluded and shunned.  I genuinely hope things have changed in the intervening decade, because people sure were unfriendly and judgmental (in our blue NOVA suburb).[/quote]

The reality is that as a SAHM, I’m not going to invite a SAHD over to my house to have the little ones play while my husband is at work.  I just never felt like it was appropriate.  I was always friendly to the SAHDs I knew out at the playground or library and certainly didn’t shun them, but the relationship was never going to move beyond that - just a reality of male-female dynamics.  I do have close guy friends from college that my husband has known for years and we have good couple friends.  I wouldn’t want my husband hanging out with another woman at her house during working hours either, frankly.[/quote]

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