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[quote=Anonymous]To OP,
You are a smart and brave woman. You made difficult choices and sacrificed your career for the good of your family.
You should no longer measure your success by your career achievements but rather by the success of your family. 
Is your family succeeding, are your kids happy? That is what you are working for. Is your husband supportive?
Those are the choices you made and you need to own them with confidence and make it works.

It is a choice I made but would never ever make again. 
I am a doctor and my husband was a management consultant at big3 consulting firm.
We were both very ambitious and overachievers. When our second child was born, I made the decision to quit my job and stay at 
home to take care of the children. At the time, had made it to junior partner at the firm and was travelling a lot. I had been practicing
for 5 years. We had a third child. I told myself at the time that putting my career behind was worth it because we were building our family.
While this arrangement was ideal for raising our children, it didn't necessarily make a difference in our marriage relationship. Like many couples, we still had 
the common issues in our marriage which ended in a divorce. I felt like the biggest loser. I was depressed and it took me a long time to recover. I felt betrayed, 
I felt like I had sacrificed a promising career as a doctor for nothing. After so many years as SAHM and out of the field, it was difficult for me to find a job. 
Luckily for me, with a friend and former schoolmate we started our own medical practice.

I hope your marriage is strong as rock. But in any case, don't be naive. Have a plan B and make sure you can always rebound at any time if you are on your own.

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