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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only mom here that had DH offer "do you want to be a SAHM once our baby is born?"

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I'm sure there are many husbands who wouldn't mind or would prefer having their wife stay home. Hell, who wouldn't want a SAHM running the house? I would (I'm a WM). My mom lives not too far away and she is back up care when our toddler is sick, she stays with us when my husband travels which makes my life so much easier, she regularly brings us a freezer full of healthy, homemade meals, and she often comes with a car full of diapers, wipes, paper towels, and other nonperishable items she can click coupons for since she says to me, "you work, you don't have time for this!" We joke that she is our SAHM.

[b]But many in this area can't afford to be a one income family[/b].[/quote]

I just posted this and before anyone comes on and talks about choices and learning to sacrifice, I should say not everyone can afford to be a one income family, and not everyone would want to live on the one income their DH makes. Of course we could live on DH's 85K salary, but given that I make a nice income and have quite a bit of flexiblity and reasonable hours, we prefer to live on double that and have extra in savings, college funds, and retirement. Our income also lets us live pretty close in, buy organic foods we want to buy, have a housekeeper once a month, etc. Yes, we could live without those things but we like the cushion my income provides.

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