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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question.

If your husbands wanted to be SAHD and you work, what would be your responses?

Would you be ok with it only if he made less money than you?  if so, why?

Do you think only women should be stay-at-home?  if so why?[/quote]

I work outside the home and obviously don't speak for everyone.   But I would LOVE it if he would be a SAHD.  I make more money and have a more secure job than he does.  He travels a lot; so I end up doing more childcare duties too.  And I'm ambivalent about our current daycare situation, though DD seems to love it.  I  would throw him a damned ticker tape parade if he said he wanted to SAH.    The constant juggling at both ends is rough on all 3 of us.[/quote]

I am a working mom of three and the sole breadwinner.  I never expected this to be the setup for us and even somewhat romanticized the notion of being a June Cleaver someday but my multi-degreed husband is now a SAHD and rocks it.  I honestly think he is a better SAHD than I would be a SAHM and "gets it" in a way that most SAHMs don't.  It makes perfect sense for him to be responsible for the housework.  He cooks, he cleans.  He has a bourbon waiting for me when I get home.  (Good lord, I may grow a penis soon!! Ha!)  He actually fired me from doing the laundry (because, as it turns out, I suck at it).  There is no equality drama.  We respect each other's contributions.  I am good at what I do.  So I go do what I do best and he does what he does what he does best.  He spends his day happily building forts and working on lego.  It totally works.[/quote]

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