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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For me, "having it all" means both parents are equally engaged at work and at home, because my personal ideal is a household where everythiing is more or less balanced.  But I'm not cut out to be a SAHM - I wouldn't enjoy it.  I also don't want to work 12 hours/day at my office.  So my husband and I are both in 40 hr/week jobs and we're both (or neither) the primary parent.

There are other versions of "having it all" but clearly the OP doesn't feel like she has it all.[/quote]
This is our family too.  It's really nice, but hard to find two nice careers like that, much less two that pay enough to live in expensive areas.  I consider us very fortunate![/quote]

We used to have this balance. DH used to work 40 hours and I worked 30. We had a HHI of about $300-400k back then. That was a decade ago.

Now DH makes $1.5m and I’m a SAHM of 3.[/quote]

I'm in the same boat as the first two PP's (equal jobs, same hours, similar pay, both do half of everything kid-related), and honestly, although I guess I'd love the money, your situation sounds awful to me. I assume your husband has to work a lot to make that kind of money? I love spending time with my spouse (it's literally the reason I married him!), so the idea of him working 60 hours a week and also maybe working weekends sounds terrible, even if it meant more money. [/quote]

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