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Why is he at fault for assuming things will continue as they did? Staying at home is a major change from working.  Shouldn't a change like this be thoroughly discussed and vetted before happening?[/quote]

Because nobody is entitled to the life they expect.  Sure, it should have been discussed, but the OP is naive to think their arrangement was final and binding no matter how miserable his wife was.  Two twentysomethings with no idea what parenting is actually like cannot be expected to make that kind of commitment.  The OP should know that people's views and feelings change as they age and grow in life experience.  [/quote]

That's interesting. Before we had kids but after we were married, my husband and I were house hunting. One of the first questions we discussed was whether we were going to both keep working after we had kids, as we had discussed many times while dating. We bought a house on the basis of both of us working full time.  I don't see why parents to be can't make that kind of commitment to each other.[/quote]

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