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[quote=Anonymous]My dad is a retired big law partner in NYC (M&A). Went to Yale law. He’s brilliant.

On a good weekday growing up he was home by 7:30-9pm. Watched some tv with us. On weekends he was very present, played sports with us, taught us to ski, read books, took us to and from play dates, coached little league.

But when he was closing a deal he had to work really long hours and depending on the client, had to travel a lot. He worked a ton on at least 50% of our vacations and even had to miss a few vacations or birthdays altogether.

My dad describes it as grueling and retired around 60. By the end of his career, he worked from home a lot but like other posters have said, he was just in his office working away.

My mom handled everything related to the kids and the day to day of our household. She also had her own more flexible career (she’s retired now too.) we never had to worry about money and grew up with private school, great camps, private lessons etc. which was nice, but I’m sure the way my dads career had to take priority was stressful for my mom and my for parents marriage.

I think a lot of people who marry guys in big law want to run the show at home though and are ok with that set up.[/quote]

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