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[quote=Anonymous]Here’s a different way of looking st things—instead of having finances drive the conversation with your wife, it might help to think about what you both want (big picture priorities). My wife hated her job and quit last year to stay home with our two young kids. She wants to return to the work out of the home world in about 1 year but the time st home has really helped clear her head. We’ve been living on just my salary (Just under $200k) and it hasn’t been a real strain since we both prioritized this change abound anything else. We cut expenses and yes, we are saving far less than we used to, but having had some major family illnesses in the past few years, we realized that time with the kids while we are all healthy is worth more to us than anything else. I suppose there’s some pressure as the sole wage earner but our tastes are simple and absolute worst case scenario, if I lost my job, we would use our savings savings or sell our house and move somewhere cheaper. [/quote]

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